Sunday, December 26, 2010

SOMALIA - MOGADISHU

With AMISOM troops on the frontline



The commander of the AMISOM forces, Major General Mugisha (3rd from R), is shown progress that has been made on the frontline inside a building that has recently been captured from Al Shabaab Insurgents in the Sigaale District of Mogadishu, Somalia on December 15th, 2010. 

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

SOMALIA - MOGADISHU



A young Somali girl poses for a picture at a school that is supported by Amisom in Al Jazeera district, near the Amisom Base, in Mogadishu, Somalia on December 13th, 2010.

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Saturday, December 11, 2010

AFGHANISTAN - WOMEN'S SHELTER


A woman who was forced to marry a man twice her age, and who was then forced to sleep with his cousin after her husband died, cries as she recounts her story at a women's shelter in Afghanistan on the 11th December, 2010.

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