October 7, 2014
Somalia's army soldiers make their way to the town of Barawe at dawn during the second phase of Operation Indian Ocean. Somalia's army and African troops deployed forces on Monday inside the strategic port which they retook from Islamist rebels at the weekend, promising residents they would be protected. The force of African Union peacekeepers and the Somali National Army said on Sunday they had driven out al Shabaab militants without a fight from Barawe, a stronghold used by rebels to ship in guns and generate cash from charcoal exports.
