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Newly married in a Mogadishu camp

Newly married Huda Omar hands a cup of water to her grandmother in Mogadishu's Rajo camp, Somalia

To loud cheers from their family and friends, newlyweds Mohamed Noor and Huda Omar walk arm-in-arm through the place that will be their home - a camp for the internally displaced in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.

Having met two years ago, the pair have just married at Rajo camp, where some 400 families live. Most, like Noor's parents, came here in the early 1990s to flee famine. They stayed on as years of conflict ravaged the Horn of Africa nation.

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