SOMALIA, Elasha Biya: In a handout photograph taken and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 28 November soldiers of the Somali National Army (SNA) rest in the early morning following a night-time ground advance two nights previous as part of a joint SNA-AMISOM operation in an area south-west of the Somali capital Mogadishu. Troops from both the Ugandan and Burundian contingents of AMISOM and SNA units advanced on foot to the dense area of bush south of Elasha Biya, itself approx. 15km west of Mogadishu, which was hitherto occupied by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated t
SOMALIA, Elasha Biya: In a handout photograph taken and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 28 November soldiers of the Somali National Army (SNA) rest in the early morning following a night-time ground advance two nights previous as part of a joint SNA-AMISOM operation in an area south-west of the Somali capital Mogadishu. Troops from both the Ugandan and Burundian contingents of AMISOM and SNA units advanced on foot to the dense area of bush south of Elasha Biya, itself approx. 15km west of Mogadishu, which was hitherto occupied by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group Al Shabaab and being used to launch attacks along the Afgooye corridor, the main thoroughfare west of the Somali capital. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
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