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ADVISORY-Reuters Witness story from Somalia
07 Jan 2007 20:00:01 GMT
Source: Reuters

C. Bryson Hull is a correspondent for Reuters based in Nairobi, from where he covers East Africa. In the following story, slugged BC-WITNESS-SOMALIA/ and headlined "WITNESS-The road to Mogadishu, via chopper and cow field", he reports on his eventful journey to the Somali capital to cover the fall of the city to Ethiopian-backed government forces.
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A Ugandan soldier guards weapons in this undated file photograph. The 1,500 Ugandan peacekeepers pledged to the African Union force for Somalia will be deployed solely in the country's lawless capital Mogadishu, the peacekeeping mission said on February 14, 2007.