Sacks of charcoal are seen by the roadside as a convoy of the Kenyan Contingent serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) makes its way through the city of Kismayo. Kenyan AMISOM troops moved into and through Kismayo, the hitherto last major urban stronghold of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group Al Shabaab, on their way to the city’s airport without a shot being fired following a two-month operation to liberate towns and villages across southern Somalia and Kismayo itself. Shabaab had for years used southern Somalia’s charcoal industry to partly fund through high taxation, a brutal insurgency to overthrow the Somali government and impose a strict form of Sharia law across Somalia AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
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