SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a handout photograph dated 29 April and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 30 April, a Ugandan soldier serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) holds a rocket-propelled grenade along the frontline of a defensive box position straddling the main road on the northern edge of Maslah Town, north-west of the Somali capital Mogadishu. AMISOM troops, now numbering 11,400 out of a mandated total of 17,731, supporting forces of the Transitional Federal Government have driven the Al-Qaeda-linked extremist group Al Shabaab out of
SOMALIA, Mogadishu: In a handout photograph dated 29 April and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 30 April, a Ugandan soldier serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) holds a rocket-propelled grenade along the frontline of a defensive box position straddling the main road on the northern edge of Maslah Town, north-west of the Somali capital Mogadishu. AMISOM troops, now numbering 11,400 out of a mandated total of 17,731, supporting forces of the Transitional Federal Government have driven the Al-Qaeda-linked extremist group Al Shabaab out of the Somali capital where life is returning to the seaside city after years of conflict and Somalis are enjoying the longest period of relative peace not experienced since 1991. AU-UN IST PHOTO /STUART PRICE.
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