RImage MOGADISHU, SOMALIA  APRIL 24: Working for the Transitional Federal Government, 12-year-old Mohamed Adan Ugas (left) and 15-year-old Ahmed Hassan guard a checkpoint near the airport in Mogadishu April 24, 2010. Ahmed said he was sent to Uganda to get training when he was 12. He was shot by the Shabab, the most powerful insurgent group. (Photo by Ed Ou/Reportage by Getty Images)

RImage MOGADISHU, SOMALIA APRIL 23: 15-year-old Ahmed Hassan fighting for the Somali Transitional Federal Government sleeps in his room with his weapon tucked under his pillow in Mogadishu April 23, 2010. Ahmed said he was sent to Uganda to get training when he was 12. He was shot in the arm by the Shabab, the most powerful insurgent group. (Photo by Ed Ou/Reportage by Getty Images)

RImage MOGADISHU, SOMALIA  APRIL 24: Awil Saleh Osman, a 12-year-old Somali fighter for the Transitional Federal Government guards a check point near the airport in Mogadishu April 24, 2010. According to Somali human rights groups and United Nations officials, the Somali government is fielding hundreds if not thousands of children on the front lines and some are as young as 8 or 9. And this government is backed by the United States, which sends it weapons and pays the soldiers salaries. (Photo by Ed Ou/Reportage by Getty Images)

RImage MOGADISHU, SOMALIA  APRIL 24: Fighting for the Transitional Federal Government, 15-year-old Ahmed Hassan smokes a cigarette while guarding a checkpoint near the airport in Mogadishu April 24, 2010. Ahmed said he was sent to Uganda to get training when he was 12. He was shot by the Shabab, the most powerful insurgent group. (Photo by Ed Ou/Reportage by Getty Images)

RImage MOGADISHU, SOMALIA  APRIL 24: Fighting for the Transitional Federal Government, 15-year-old Ahmed Hassan walks around the streets of Mogadishu April 24, 2010. Ahmed said he was sent to Uganda to get training when he was 12. He was shot by the Shabab, the most powerful insurgent group. (Photo by Ed Ou/Reportage by Getty Images)

RImage MOGADISHU, SOMALIA  APRIL 24: Fighting for the Transitional Federal Government, 15-year-old sits by the beach in Mogadishu April 24, 2010. Ahmed said he was sent to Uganda to get training when he was 12. He was shot by the Shabab, the most powerful insurgent group. (Photo by Ed Ou/Reportage by Getty Images)

RImage MOGADISHU, SOMALIA  APRIL 24: 15-year-old Ahmed Hassan submerges himself in water in a beach in Mogadishu, Somalia April 24, 2010. Ahmed said he was sent to Uganda to get training when he was 12. He was shot by the Shabab, the most powerful insurgent group. (Photo by Ed Ou/Reportage by Getty Images)

RImage MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – APRIL 24: 15-year-old Ahmed Hassan dresses himself after swimming in a beach in Mogadishu, Somalia April 24, 2010. Ahmed said he was sent to Uganda to get training when he was 12. He was shot by the Shabab, the most powerful insurgent group. © Ed Ou / Reportage by Getty Images for The New York Times City of Perpignan Young Reporter’s Award - 2011

RImage MOGADISHU, SOMALIA  APRIL 24: Fighting for the Transitional Federal Government, 15-year-old Ahmed Hassan listens to the radio in his room in Mogadishu, Somalia April 24, 2010. Ahmed said he was sent to Uganda to get training when he was 12. He was shot by the Shabab, the most powerful insurgent group. (Photo by Ed Ou/Reportage by Getty Images)

RImage MOGADISHU, SOMALIA  APRIL 24: 12-year-old Mohamed Adan Ugas fighting for the Transitional Federal Government disassembles his weapon in a house in Mogadishu April 24, 2010. According to Somali human rights groups and United Nations officials, the Somali government is fielding hundreds if not thousands of children on the front lines and some are as young as 8 or 9. And this government is backed by the United States, which sends it weapons and pays the soldiers salaries. (Photo by Ed Ou/Reportage by Getty Images)

RImage MOGADISHU, SOMALIA  JANUARY 24: Children recite the Koran in an islamic medrassa in the Hamarweyne District of Mogadishu, Somalia January 4, 2010. Somalia has been mired in civil war for almost 20 years now. For children, there are few options, with few schools and little hope. Somalia may be one of the bleakest places on the planet to be a kid. (Photo by Ed Ou/Reportage by Getty Images)

RImage MOGADISHU, SOMALIA  JUNE 4: Awil Saleh Osman, a 12-year-old Somali fighter for the Transitional Federal Government stands with chain of ammunition around his neck in his house in Mogadishu June 4, 2010. According to Somali human rights groups and United Nations officials, the Somali government is fielding hundreds if not thousands of children on the front lines and some are as young as 8 or 9. And this government is backed by the United States, which sends it weapons and pays the soldiers salaries. (Photo by Ed Ou/Reportage by Getty Images)

RImage MOGADISHU, SOMALIA  JUNE 4: Awil Saleh Osman, a 12-year-old Somali fighter for the Transitional Federal Government stands with chain of ammunition around his neck in his house in Mogadishu June 4, 2010. According to Somali human rights groups and United Nations officials, the Somali government is fielding hundreds if not thousands of children on the front lines and some are as young as 8 or 9. And this government is backed by the United States, which sends it weapons and pays the soldiers salaries. (Photo by Ed Ou/Reportage by Getty Images)

RImage MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – JUNE 4: 13-year-old Abdulaziz Mohamed gestures at a woman in the staircase of a house in Mogadishu, Somalia June 4, 2010. He lives with government fighters for the Transitional Government in a derelict house near the airport. © Ed Ou / Reportage by Getty Images for The New York Times City of Perpignan Young Reporter’s Award - 2011

RImage MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – JANUARY 4: Internally displaced somalis take temporary refuge in partially destroyed Italian colonial buildings in Mogadishu's Hamarweyne district January 4, 2010. Somalia has been mired in civil war for almost 20 years now. For children, there are few options, with few schools and little hope. Somalia may be one of the bleakest places on the planet to be a kid. © Ed Ou / Reportage by Getty Images for The New York Times City of Perpignan Young Reporter’s Award - 2011

RImage MOGADISHU, SOMALIA  JANUARY 4: A 14-year-old soldier with the Transitional Federal Government holds on the front line with Islamic Shebab forces near the K4 roundabout in Mogadishu, Somalia January 4, 2010. (Photo by Ed Ou/Reportage by Getty Images)