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FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2008 file photo, armed al-shabab fighters on pickup trucks prepare to travel into the city, just outside Mogadishu, in Somalia. U.S. military forces targeted the Islamic extremist al-Shabab network in an operation Monday, Sept. 1, 2014 in Somalia, the Pentagon said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

6 militants killed in US Somalia strike

By ABDI GULED - Associated Press

In this photo taken Sunday, March 30, 2014, a female Somali soldier talks on her walkie-talkie outside a police station in Mogadishu, Somalia. It’s unusual to see a female in the military in traditionally conservative Somali society where women's duties are generally at home and limited to family chores, but determined women are breaking down those barriers with about 1,500 females now in the military of 20,000, according to estimates. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Female soldiers join the army ranks in Somalia

By ABDI GULED - Associated Press

Mohamed Aden, a malnourished two-year-old boy, sits on his mother's lap at Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Much of Somalia has seen no or erratic rains in recent months and fighting between African Union forces and the Islamic extremists of al-Shabab is cutting off food shipments to many parts of the country and discouraging farmers from planting - as a result, 50,000 children are severely malnourished, says the aid community. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Hunger in Somalia: Familiar menace could return

By ABDI GULED and JASON STRAZIUSO - Associated Press

Somali Member of Parliament Muse Sheikh Omar, center, carries a young Somali girl deportee as he helps Somalis who had been deported from Kenya to Somalia from their aircraft after it landed at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Kenya's security minister said Wednesday that 82 Somali nationals have been deported in an ongoing security crackdown following recent terror attacks in Kenya's capital and the port city of Mombasa. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Kenya deports 82 Somalis in terror crackdown

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press