February 24, 2015
COULD HAVE REACHED THIS POINT A DECADE AGO...:
Somalia: Majority of capital residents surveyed feel safer than in 2013 (Claire Felter, FEBRUARY 23, 2015, CS Monitor)
In a recent study by the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies, the majority of the 1,600 residents of the capital, Mogadishu, who were surveyed said they feel safer now than they did in 2013, and that they witness less conflict between clans and fewer attacks by rebel groups.Abdirahman Yusuf, who grew up in Somaliland and cofounded a post-resettlement agency for Somali refugees in Boston in the 1990s, returned in September to Mogadishu for the first time in more than three decades. He acknowledges this headway and attributes it to the waning presence of one faction in particular.Recommended: Could you pass a US citizenship test?"You could say people are a little bit more optimistic than they were before," says Mr. Yusuf. "And the main reason for that is that the terrorist organization Al Shabab has been weakened."
...by recognizing who our allies are.
Posted by Orrin Judd at February 24, 2015 2:24 PM
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