News Photo: This handout photograph taken and released by the…
Title:

SOMALIA-UNREST
Caption: This handout photograph taken and released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support team on February 27, 2012 shows a man selling watermelon in the central Somali town of Buur-Hakba. The strategically important town on the Afgooye-Baidoa, corridor in Bay region, was liberated from Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group Al Shabaab early this morning without any resistance, marking a significant loss for the group. The town, located 64kms east of Baidoa, 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 significant 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 decrease. AFP PHOTO / AU-UN IST / 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: 27 Feb 2013
Editorial image #: 162797886
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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
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AFP/Stringer
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AFP

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Source: AFP
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Bar code: AU-UN IST
Object name: Par7488869
Copyright: 2013 AFP
Keywords: Town, Conflict, Horizontal, War, Somalia, Releasing, Showing, Selling, Photograph, Adult, Watermelon, Men, African Union, Horn of Africa, Somali Civil War. Find similar images
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Subject
African Union
Photograph
Releasing
Selling
Showing
Somali Civil War
Town
War
Watermelon
People
Adult
Men
Location
Horn of Africa
Somalia
Concept
Conflict
Style
Horizontal
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