African Union Peacekeepers Patrol Mogadishu After Al-Shabab Militants Withdraw
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A Ugandan soldier, part of the 9,000-strong African Union Mission in Somalia, (AMISOM) walks through the Banadir soccer stadium on August 15, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia. The stadium, Somalia's largest soccer facility, had been under control by Islamic extremist Shabab militants for the past two years until they withdrew from the capital more than a week ago. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
A Ugandan soldier stands in a bomb making warehouse on August 15, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia. AMISOM troops discovered IED-making material at the site which had been abandoned by Islamic extremist Shabab militants when they withdrew from the capital more than a week before. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
A Ugandan soldier checks his smart phone while walking past war rubble on an AMISOM base on August 17, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia. Some 9,000 Ugandan and Burundian soldiers make up the AMISOM contingent in Mogadishu. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Ugandan soldiers prepare to go on patrol on August 17, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
A Ugandan soldier runs through the infamous Bakara market on August 17, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia. Islamist extremist Shabab militants had controlled the area before abruptly withdrawing from the capital 10 days before. The Bakara market was where two US Army helicopters were shot down and 19 American servicemen killed in 1993 during the Battle of Mogadishu, made famous in the book and film, [Blackhawk Down]. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
The Indian Ocean meets the war-ravaged Somali coast as an African Union soldier takes scenic snapshots on August 17, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia. After more than two decades of civil war, the UN estimates that 1.5 million Somalis are displaced within the country and more than 100,000 of them have fled to Mogadishu in the last months due to famine and drought. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
As business slowly begins anew, a laborer moves goods past Ugandan African Union soldiers in the Bakara market on August 17, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
A Somali government soldier runs past an allied African Union (AMISOM) tank on August 17, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
A Mogadishu municipal electrician climbs to inspect jumbled power connections in the Bakara market on August 17, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia. The Somali Transitional Federal Government is eager to restore services to the commercial district 10 days after Islamist extremist Shabab militants abruptly withdrew from the capital, leaving Somali and African Union (AMISOM), forces in control of the city. The Bakara market was where two US Army helicopters were shot down and 19 American servicemen killed in 1993 during the Battle of Mogadishu, made famous in the book and film, [Black Hawk Down]. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG), soldiers stand guard in the Bakara market on August 17, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
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