New Somalia president offers ray of hope

 

The determination by Somalia’s neighbours, who bear the brunt of Al Shabaab and the African Union, has been to ensure Somalia must find its footing again after the overthrow of deposed President Siad Barre in 1990 threw the country into pandemonium from which it has been hard to extract itself.PHOTO:COURTESY

The build-up to the Somalia presidential elections was anything but peaceful, yet they had to go on as scheduled.