News Photo: handout picture taken and released by the African…
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SOMALIA-UN-AU
Caption: A handout picture taken and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support team on February 28, 2013 shows a Ugandan soldier serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) handing out biscuits to young Somali children in the central Somali town of Buur-Hakba following it's capture the day before from the Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group Al Shabaab by the Somali National Army (SNA), supported by AMISOM forces. The strategically important town linking the capital Mogadishu and the hinterlands of central Somalia was liberated without a shot being fired, marking a significant loss for the group. Under the Shabaab's repressive and violent rule, social and leisure past-times such as football were banned in every form including watching and playing. The town, located 64kms east of Baidoa, Somalia's second city, was a stronghold of the Shabaab where they extorted high levies of illegal taxation on the local civilian populations and used it as a base from where they planned and launched attacks against government forces and installations, AMISOM and the Somali population. Buur-Hakba is the latest in a string of notable territorial losses for the extremist group to SNA and AMISOM forces over the last 18 months, which has seen their area of influence and control over towns and areas across Somalia steadily and rapidly decrease. AFP PHOTO / AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT 'AFP PHOTO / AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE' - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo credit should read STUART PRICE/AFP/Getty Images)
Date created: 28 Feb 2013
Editorial image #: 162843934
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Bar code: AU-UN IST PHOTO
Object name: Par7490547
Copyright: 2013 AFP
Keywords: Town, Conflict, Horizontal, Somalia, Uganda, Releasing, Following, Army Soldier, Giving, Day, Child, Al-Qaida, African Union, Horn of Africa, Extremism, Al-Shabaab. Find similar images
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Subject
African Union
Al-Qaida
Al-Shabaab
Army Soldier
Day
Following
Giving
Releasing
Town
People
Child
Location
Horn of Africa
Somalia
Uganda
Concept
Conflict
Extremism
Style
Horizontal
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