SOMALIA-FISHING-AMISOM

A handout photograph taken taken on March 16, 2013 and released on March 18 by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team shows a Somali man carrying a large sailfish to the fish market in the Xamar Weyne district of Mogadishu. Every morning Mogadishu’s fisherman bring their catch ashore upon which it is quickly unloaded and transported to Xamar Weyne’s fish market where it is sold for consumption on the local market and, increasingly, for export to other countries. Over the last two decades, instability on land has greatly restricted the development of the country’s fishing industry, but now that Somalia is enjoying the longest period of sustained peace in over 20 years, there is large-scale potential and opportunity to harvest the bountiful waters off the Horn of Africa nation, which boasts the longest coastline in Africa. AFP PHOTO / AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE
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