A Ugandan soldier serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) 7th Battalion mans a heavy machine-gun inside a defensive position along the frontline on the X-Control Balaad junction in Mogadishu, where AMISOM forces have pushed Al Shabaab militants beyond the city's northern fringes to the outskirts of the Somali capital. AU/UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.