Joanna Reid (centre), head of UK Department of Foreign and International Development (DFID) in Somalia listens during a meeting meet with a team of Somali mine and ordinance disposal experts deployed to defuse bombs and other improvised explosives devices (IEDs) planted in and around the town by suspected Al-Shabaab militants. Reid was visiting the capital of Somalia's Bay and Bakool Region to see first-hand the impact and progress of UK-funded projects to renovate the police station, a similar forthcoming project to repair and improve the town's prison and to meet with local Somali leaders and representatives of humanitarian agencies implementing DFID-funded programs in Baidoa. AU/UN IST PHOTO / MAHAMUD HASSAN.