A team of Australian footballers of Somali descent are touring Somalia - the first time they have ever visited the country.

“These kids were born in Australia, they have never been to Africa before”, Ibrahim Omar Baafo who is the team coordinator told the BBC.

“They are here to see their countrymen and learn about their culture and heritage.”

The Somali Australian Team, as the football team is known, was dreamt up in Melbourne by a group of Somali parents.

“They wanted their children to go back to their roots and do something for the Somali people”.

As well as playing football, the team have helped raise money to pay for eye surgery for 450 people and surgery for 60 women suffering from obstetric fistula - where the bladder and rectum are damaged during childbirth.