Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the Economist.

In New York, I'm John Fassman.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

All over the world, people are adapting to a change in climate.

There's sewing different crops, planting more trees, and painting roofs white instead of black.

But more important than any of those, maybe making sure children go to school.

And for two years, people have been reluctant to spend hours in crowded rooms,

inhaling and exhaling with strangers.

But this summer, Tom Cruise has returned to the skies, and dinosaurs once again roam the earth.

The summer blockbuster is back.

But first.

Today Hassan Sheikh Muhammad was inaugurated as President of Somalia.

Ten years after he first entered the presidential palace,

this makes him the first president to hold the office twice since Somalia became independent in 1960.

But while Mr. Muhammad has broken new political ground,

his country faces many of the same challenges that did when he first took office.

The threat of widespread famine, vast swaths of territory held by jihadists,

and much like in 2012, terror attacks are routine.

So I went to Somalia just a few days after the election,

and to get to Mogadishu's always rather complicated.

Tom Gardner is the economist, Horn of Africa correspondent.

You arrive at the airport, and basically all the international organizations, businesses, are in the green zone,

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