SOMALIA, Kismayo: In a handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 02 October, a soldier of the Kenyan Contingent serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) gestures towards the black flag of the Al Qaeda-affiliated extremist group Al Shabaab painted on the wall of Kismayo Airport. Kenyan AMISOM troops moved into and through Kismayo, the hitherto last major urban stronghold of tAl Shabaab, on their way to the airport without a shot being fired following a two-month operation to liberate towns and villages across southern Somalia and

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SOMALIA, Kismayo: In a handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 02 October, a soldier of the Kenyan Contingent serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) gestures towards the black flag of the Al Qaeda-affiliated extremist group Al Shabaab painted on the wall of Kismayo Airport. Kenyan AMISOM troops moved into and through Kismayo, the hitherto last major urban stronghold of tAl Shabaab, on their way to the airport without a shot being fired following a two-month operation to liberate towns and villages across southern Somalia and Kismayo itself. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.

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