Tough exams for Somalia’s new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
A woman carries a water container at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Baidoa, Somalia, on February 13, 2022. Somalia is facing a devastating drought and hunger.
He has to deal with the Al-Shabaab threat, rebuild national institutions, reform a battered economy and see the birth of a new constitution that will define roles, functions and procedures of government going forward.
Al-Shabaab, the militant group that attempted to assassinate him during his first term, has recently stepped attacks in Mogadishu.
Recently, it bombed a security checkpoint, a camp manned by African Union forces and even targeted the venue of parliament where MPs had gathered to elect parliament’s Speakers increasing the security threat.
Somalia’s new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud will have to contend with a basketful of issues, mostly problems, for the next four years, ranging from insecurity to corruption.
He has to deal with the Al-Shabaab threat, rebuild national institutions, reform a battered economy and see the birth of a new constitution that will define roles, functions and procedures of government going forward.
