On the Front Line in Kismayo

Photos from the crucial Somali port city, after its liberation from the hands of al-Shabab.

DECEMBER 17, 2012

A member of Ras Kamboni, a local militia, accompanies an AMISOM convoy from Kismayo International Airport to Kismayo. While attacks by al-Shabab on AMISOM troops have been decreasing in Somalia, the terrorist group has turned to planting IEDs and using other insurgency tactics. 

AU-UN IST PHOTO / TOBIN JONES