Photo of the Day: A sniper in a control tower checks surrounding areas for al Shabaab militants as the Ugandan contingent of African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) prepares to advantage towards Baidoa along with the Somali National Army at the recently captured Baledogle airbase.

Mogadishu, which until last year was engulfed in street battles between al Shabaab militants linked to al Quaeda and African Union soldiers, is now a bustling city where bullet-riddled houses are slowly being repaired and replaced. (Photo: REUTERS/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Tobin Jones/Handout)