SOMALIA, Elasha Biya: In a handout photograph taken on 26 November and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 28 November, Ugandan troops serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) form-up in the middle of the night ahead of a ground advance as part of a joint Somali National Army (SNA) and 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
SOMALIA, Elasha Biya: In a handout photograph taken on 26 November and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 28 November, Ugandan troops serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) form-up in the middle of the night ahead of a ground advance as part of a joint Somali National Army (SNA) and 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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