SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a handout photograph taken 10 January 2013 and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 11 January, a Nigerian police officer serving with a Formed Police Unit (FPU) of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) mans a gun turret on a armoured personnel carrier as a convoy drives along a main street of the Somali capital Mogadishu during a joint night patrol and snap-vehicle checkpoint exercise with the Somali Police Force (SPF). Security has steadily and significantly improved in Somalia's ocean-bordered capital over the last year as stab
SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a handout photograph taken 10 January 2013 and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 11 January, a Nigerian police officer serving with a Formed Police Unit (FPU) of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) mans a gun turret on a armoured personnel carrier as a convoy drives along a main street of the Somali capital Mogadishu during a joint night patrol and snap-vehicle checkpoint exercise with the Somali Police Force (SPF). Security has steadily and significantly improved in Somalia's ocean-bordered capital over the last year as stability has gradually returned following the withdrawal of the Al-Qaeda-allied extremist group Al Shabaab 18 months ago. Sustained military operations by the Somali National Army (SNA) supported by AMISOM forces across southern and central Somalia have liberated towns and areas once under the control of the violent extremist group. AU-UN ST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
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