Somali refugees run from the dust at Ifo camp near Dadaab, about 50 miles from Liboi on the border with Somalia in northeastern Kenya, Jan. 8, 2007. Aid agencies are operating three large refugee camps in Dadaab, where about 160,000 Somali refugees are held. (Radu Sigheti/Reuters)
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A Somali boy walks along a deserted street that was once one of the busiest in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, Jan. 10, 2008. The Horn of Africa nation has been without a central government and has been mired in lawlessness and violence since warlords ousted dictator Mohammed Siad Barre in 1991. (Omar Faruk/Reuters)
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A woman gestures as she waits to receive food aid from a local non-governmental organization in the outskirts of Mogadishu, May 21, 2008. Somali gunmen stormed an aid group's office and kidnapped two Italian workers and a Somali colleague in the latest abduction of foreigners in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation. (Ismail Taxte/Reuters)
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A Somali girl sits on a truck transferring survivors of a capsized boat to a refugee reception center in the southern Yemeni town of Ahwar, Sept. 24, 2008. Yemeni officials said five women and a child drowned after the boat, carrying about 120 people, capsized off Yemen's southern coast. Eighty-six people made it to shore alive and 18 were missing. Fighting in Somalia and new smuggling routes to Yemen lead hundreds of people to risk their lives by crossing the Gulf of Aden on small boats run by smugglers. (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)
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A wounded child is carried to a hospital in Mogadishu by his brothers after Somali government soldiers and Islamic insurgents exchanged mortar fire near Mogadishu's Bakara market, Sept. 27, 2008. (Mowliid Abdi/Reuters)
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A masked member of the Youth Islamist Movement al-Shabbab poses with his weapon in Mogadishu, Nov. 4, 2008. (Mowliid Abdi/Reuters)
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Several of the 19 captured Somali pirates, seen in this Jan. 4, 2009 photo released by the French Navy, with their hands on their heads, are taken to the French naval vessel "Jean de Vienne," which came to the rescue of two cargo ships in the Gulf of Aden. The French warship was patrolling operating in the seas off Somalia as part of a European Union anti-piracy force when it came to the rescue of a Croatian cargo vessel and a Panamanian ship. (Ho New/Reuters)
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Islamist insurgents pose with their weapons for the media in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, Jan. 16, 2009. Ethiopian troops supporting Somalia's government withdrew completely from Mogadishu, witnesses said, leaving a power vacuum in the capital that could lead to more bloodshed. (Mowlid Abdi/Reuters)
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A woman injured during a car bomb explosion in Mogadishu is rushed to hospital by her relatives, Jan. 24, 2009. A suicide car bomb aimed at African Union peacekeepers in the Somali capital missed its target and killed 13 civilians and a policeman Saturday. (Feisal Omar/Reuters)
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A peacekeeper from the African Union mission to Somalia stands guard as patients line up to access medical attention in Mogadishu, Jan. 29, 2009. Somali presidential candidates were seeking to persuade lawmakers meeting in Djibouti that they can bring stability to a nation riven by feuding militias, rival Islamist insurgents and killing. (Feisal Omar/Reuters)
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