RNPS – PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2013 – Children play at a guest hotel in Mogadishu October 10, 2013. Street lamps now brighten some of Mogadishu’s battle-scarred roads and couples hold hands at the seaside next to bombed-out beachfront buildings, a scene that would have been unthinkable when the Islamist al Shabaab group held sway here. However, rebuilding a life many in the world take for granted is a slow process after more than 20 years of civil war and anarchy in Somalia. Islamists, who control swathes of countryside and some towns, have launched several attacks in Mogadishu, and last month they showed their reach, claiming responsibility for a deadly attack on a Kenyan shopping mall. REUTERS/Feisal Omar (SOMALIA – Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY TPX CONFLICT)