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Perspective: Africa - September 2016 Photo: AMISOM Public Information Striving for development: Since the early 1990s, various militant groups used Mogadishu stadium as their base of operations. Al-Shabaab banned sporting events when they laid siege to the city in 2008, but after the Somali National Army recaptured the city in 2011 the federal government, with assistance from China, renovated the stadium. 11 Photo: AMISOM Public Information