Our photographer Arthur Kintu is in Somalia
with the African Union peacekeeping
operation and bring us his view
of the war-torn Horn of Africa
state through his lense. |

The desolate bombed-out city of Mogadishu. The militants hide in the
dilapidated buildings to shoot at the African Union forces

The former headquarters of the ANISOM peacekeepin mission which
were hit by a suicide bomber in September 2007

Some of the few people still living in the bombed-out city of Mogadishu

Peacekeepers testing one of their heavy artilleries in Mogadishu


A Ugandan officer morale boosts his troops before deploying them for the day

AMISOM forces patrolling Aljazira1 zone in Mogadishu

Somali women line up to get treatment at the AMISOM out-patients
department in Medina

A father cries as he shows the stump of her daughter’s leg to UPDF doctors |