SOMALIA, Kismayo: A handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 04 October, shows an aerial view of trucks stopped at a Somali National Army (SNA) checkpoint on a road heading out of the southern Somali port city of Kismayo. The last bastion of the once feared Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group Al Shabaab, Kismayo fell after troops of the Somali National Army (SNA) and the pro-government Ras Kimboni Brigade milita supported by the Kenyan Contigent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) entered the port city on 02 October following a two m

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SOMALIA, Kismayo: A handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 04 October, shows an aerial view of trucks stopped at a Somali National Army (SNA) checkpoint on a road heading out of the southern Somali port city of Kismayo. The last bastion of the once feared Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group Al Shabaab, Kismayo fell after troops of the Somali National Army (SNA) and the pro-government Ras Kimboni Brigade milita supported by the Kenyan Contigent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) entered the port city on 02 October following a two month operation across southern Somalia which saw the liberation of villages and centres along a distance of 120km from Afmadow to Kismayo.

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