STORY: AMISOM & SNA TROOPS SECURE QORYOOLEY TRT: 02:20 SOURCE: AU/UN IST RESTRICTIONS: This media

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1. Wide shot, AMISOM troops walking on the road to Qoryooley 2. Med shot, AMISOM boots walking 3. Med shot, AMISOM troops hold weapons as they match 4. Wide shot, AMISOM troops on the road to Qoryooley 5. Wide shot, AMISOM troops walk past SNA technicals 6. Med shot, SNA soldiers on top of a technical 7. Wide shot, AMISOM tanks on the road 8. Med shot, AMISOM tanks rolling on the road 9. Wide shot, AMISOM and SNA soldiers taking cover 10. Wide shot, AMISOM engages Al Shabaab in gun battle 11. Med shot, soldiers on the ground fighting 12. Med shot, truck crosses a bridge leading into Qoryooley town 13.Med shot, trucks drive into Qoryooley town 14.Wide shot, SNA and AMISOM walk through Qoryooley 15. Med shot, AMISOM troops walking through the streets of Qoryooley 16. SOUNDBITE (English), Brigadier Dick Olum, AMISOM Ugandan Contingent Commander: AMISOM is definitely going to look at covering and capturing all these other areas remaining up to Baraawe. We are going to take all these areas sequentially, until we take them all. Just a simple message to Al Shabaab; you either give in or we are coming for you. 16. Wide shot, SNA troops standing outside a shop in Qoryooley 17. Med shot, SNA troops chatting outside shop 18. SOUNDBITE (Somali), General Abdirizaq Elmi, SNA Deputy Chief of Defense Forces: I would like to send a message to the people who are still in al Shabaab. The time of Shabaab is over. We call on the Somali youth trapped in al Shabaab to go back to their communities and take the amnesty offered by the Somali president and the people.

19. Wide shot, AMISOM APC and tanks 20. Med shot, soldiers walk in front of APCs and tanks. STORY Somali National Army and AMISOM troops are securing and conducting mopping exercises in Qoryooley following the towns capture from Al Shabaab yesterday in a two-pronged attack that caught the insurgents by surprise. The town located 120 kilometres southwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu previously served as a strong training and logistical base for the insurgents. The AMISOM Commander in-charge of the operation Brig. Dick Olum, from the Ugandan contingent says the capture of Qoryooley is just the beginning. AMISOM is definitely going to look at covering and capturing all these other areas remaining up to Baraawe. We are going to take all these areas sequentially until we take them all. Just a simple message to Al Shabaab; you either give in or we are coming for you, he warned. The Somali National Army Deputy Chief of Defense Forces who is part of the operation, General Abdirizaq Elmi says the era of the Al Shabaab has come to an end. I would like to send a message to the people who are still in al Shabaab. The time of Shabaab is over. We call on the Somali youth trapped in al Shabaab to go back to their communities and take the amnesty offered by the Somali president and the people, he said reiterating the position of the Somali government in the days before the offensive. A number of Al Shabaab insurgents were killed during the operation, which is part of the offensive launched by AMISOM this month to liberate the parts of Somalia still under the control of Al Shabaab. 8 key towns have been liberated so far. ENDS