Episode #87: The Future of Somalia

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🗓️ 8 August 2014

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Washington was abuzz this week as more than 50 African leaders were in town for the first U.S.-Africa Summit. Yesterday, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the President of Somalia, spoke at Brookings on the future of his country. In his talk, President Mohamud addressed the challenges to democracy that Somalia faces, and how Somalia, the African Union, and other international partners can work together to ensure security, foster development, and promote stable state-building in the country. President Mohamud also addressed the challenges his state faces in its ongoing battle against Al-Shabab militants - a mission that the U.S. has contributed more than half a billion dollars to since 2007. President Mohamud provides a realistic assessment of that threat, while highlighting the efforts his country is taking to bring democracy to Somalia. Michael E. O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings, provided introductory remarks and moderated the conversation.

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0:27.2	and the aftermath.
0:29.2	The plans are now by the end of the year.
0:33.4	There will not be a territory controlled by al-Shabab Insumali, but that does not mean
0:37.5	it's the end of the war.
0:38.8	The war will continue right now when they lost the military front today.
0:43.1	They just come back to the metropolitan places like Moguro Show where modern tourion people
0:48.4	are leaving.
0:49.4	They just melt down into the society and they're doing this heat and the urban warfare,
0:54.9	as a medical war for frontside band target assassinations and suicides.
1:01.5	So it will take some time.
1:03.1	The war is not one of military only.
1:05.6	It has multi-faceted frontes, economic front, poverty and grievances are always the two
1:14.4	areas where al-Shabab benefits within the society.
1:18.0	Society that has been without functioning is made over two decades.
1:21.2	But still we have that hope that we can defeat al-Shabab.
1:25.6	We can put back a function in state institutions in place, one which is a strong democratic
1:33.3	foundations.
1:34.3	I'm Cody Poplin and this is the LawFair podcast August 9, 2014.
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