Let the world not step back from helping Somalia

Yet again, the Horn of Africa is proving figuratively as sharp as it is deadly. The lull in militant Islam activity spearheaded by the fast-fading Al Shabaab that is linked operationally to Al Qaeda over the past two weeks was shattered by the unsuccessful suicide bombing in Mogadishu.

Somalia has been a battleground in the US-led global war against terror, while the long military engagement of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and now Kenya Defence Forces under the African Union Mission to Somalia (Amisom) to eliminate the lawless nation’s disruption of regional stability culminated in the landmark presidential election held on Monday.