SOMALIA, Kismayo: In a handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team 04 October, a Kenyan Air Force helicopter lands at Kismayo Airport in southern Somalia. Kismayo, the last bastion of the once feared Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group Al Shabaab, fell after troops of the Somali National Army (SNA) and the pro-government Ras Kimboni Brigade milita supported by the Kenyan Contigent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) entered the port city on 02 October following a two month operation across southern Somalia which saw the liberation of villages and centres along a distance of 120km from Afmadow to Kismayo. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.