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Have burned down everything. they destroyed the shops, the houses, the water wells. like, the people right now do not even have clean water to drink. this was your shop, was it? it was. but what s changed here is the mood, no longer of despair but of determination. a popular uprising is under way, locals telling us somalia s drought has left them with no option but to help defeat the hated militants. in the last month or so, these troops have captured vast amounts of territory here in the centre of somalia, liberating dozens of villages, but the question and it s always the question here in somalia is, how long can they hold on to the territory? or will the militants of al shabab simply melt away into the countryside and then return? al shabab have hit back hard, with a string of devastating bomb attacks, like this one ....
But right before we reach here, they fled the town and right before they left, they have burned down everything. they destroyed the shops, the houses, the water wells. like the people right now do not even have clean water to drink. this was your shop, was it? it was. but what s changed here is the mood. no longer of despair, but of determination. a popular uprising is under way. locals telling us somalia s drought has left them with no option but to help defeat the hated militants. in the last month or so, these troops have captured vast amounts of territory here in the centre of somalia, liberating dozens of villages. but the question, and it s always the question here in somalia, is how long can they hold on to the territory or will the militants of al shabab simply melt away into the countryside and then return? al shabab have hit back hard ....
With no option but to help defeat the hated militants. in the last month or so, these troops have captured vast amounts of territory here in the centre of somalia, liberating dozens of villages, but the question and it s always the question here in somalia is, how long can they hold on to the territory? or will the militants of al shabab simply melt away into the countryside and then return? al shabab have hit back hard, with a string of devastating bomb attacks, like this one in the capital mogadishu. but listen to this politician, who s survived five attacks by the militants. you see, when they were taking me. so this is you on the stretcher? yeah, yeah, yeah. he now believes the momentum has shifted. do you think this could be a turning point, then, against al shabab? ....
On to the territory? or will the militants of al shabab simply melt away into the countryside and then return? al shabab have hit back hard, with a string of devastating bomb attacks, like this one in the capital mogadishu. but listen to this politician, who s survived five attacks by the militants. you see, when they were taking me. so this is you on the stretcher? yeah, yeah, yeah. he now believes the momentum has shifted. do you think this could be a turning point, then, against al shabab? i m sure this is a turning point. i believe that if the government gets advantage of this opportunity, i think it will be the time that al shabab will be defeated. that confidence is spreading fast, people in newly liberated areas no longer ruled by fear. can you put your hand up if you are glad that al shabab has been driven out of your village? ....
Here in the centre of somalia, liberating dozens of villages, but the question and it s always the question here in somalia is, how long can they hold on to the territory? or will the militants of al shabab simply melt away into the countryside and then return? al shabab have hit back hard, with a string of devastating bomb attacks, like this one in the capital mogadishu. but listen to this politician, who s survived five attacks by the militants. you see, when they were taking me. so this is you on the stretcher? yeah, yeah, yeah. he now believes the momentum has shifted. do you think this could be a turning point, then, against al shabab? i m sure this is a turning point. i believe that if the government gets advantage of this opportunity, i think it will be the time that al shabab will be defeated. that confidence is spreading fast, people in newly liberated areas no longer ruled by fear. ....