SOMALIA, Belet Weyne: In a photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 18 November, a soldier serving with the Djiboutian contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is silhouetted by the sun as he mounts his machine gun during a patrol in the early morning in the central Somali town of Belet Weyne in the Hiraan region of Somalia, approx. 300km north west of the capital Mogadishu. AMSIOM troops have been this week begun increasing their forces in Belet Weyne since first deploying there in September after the town liberated from Al-Qaeda-aff

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SOMALIA, Belet Weyne: In a photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 18 November, a soldier serving with the Djiboutian contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is silhouetted by the sun as he mounts his machine gun during a patrol in the early morning in the central Somali town of Belet Weyne in the Hiraan region of Somalia, approx. 300km north west of the capital Mogadishu. AMSIOM troops have been this week begun increasing their forces in Belet Weyne since first deploying there in September after the town liberated from Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group Al Shabaab in December 2011 by a combined force of the Ethiopian Army and Somali government forces. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.

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