Somalia

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Somali soldiers carry a wounded civilian from the entrance of the Supreme Court complex after being injured during a siege by militants in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Sunday, April 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

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Shaker Masri, 29, of Chicago was sentenced in federal court in Chicago on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, for plotting to attend a training camp in Somalia to become a suicide bomber for the terrorist groups al Qaeda and al-Shabab. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service)

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Amina Abdi and her child live in a tent on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, in a camp that provides no services or security to protect women from rape. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Somali internally-displaced child looks out from her family's makeshift home in Maslah camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, on Nov. 29, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Mohamud Said Omar, shown in an undated family photo, is accused of providing money and personnel to al-Shabab, a U.S.-designated terror group at the center of much of the violence in Somalia. (AP Photo/Family of Mohamud Said Omar)

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**FILE** Kenyan army soldiers sit Dec. 14, 2011, on a currently unused fishing boat on the white sand shore of the seaside town of Bur Garbo, Somalia. (Associated Press)

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Somali military trainees march Aug. 14, 2012, during a graduation ceremony at the Jazeera military camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia. These soldiers are part of 602 trainees who are graduating following an eight-month training program. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets Feb. 23, 2012, with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi at the London Conference on Somalia. (Associated Press)

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In early 2010, a boy led the hard-line Islamist al-Shabab fighters as they conducted military exercise in Somalia. The country’s continuous violence appears to have increased recruiting efforts of young fighters, who are easily indoctrinated. (Associated Press)

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Soldiers stand guard near a bombed-out hospital in the border town of Dobley, Somalia. An al Qaeda affiliate has been fighting government troops. The country’s new draft constitution guarantees some rights. (Associated Press)