Barack Obama must seize the opportunity presented by the election of a moderate Islamist as leader of this damaged nationThe election of a moderate Islamist as Somalia's president has given Barack Obama an early opportunity to redeem his pledge to forge new relationships with the Muslim world. But if the US leader is to repair the damage caused by past western policy in the Horn of Africa, he will have to move quickly because the government now being formed by Sheikh Sharif Ahmed may yet be strangled at birth.
After winning last weekend's vote in Somalia's parliament-in-exile in Djibouti, Ahmed not so much offered as threw an olive branch at Obama. "America has become a force which supports peace … We think the American view of Somalia is now positive," he told Egypt's el-Shorouk newspaper.more,,http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/05/somalia-election-america-obama
After winning last weekend's vote in Somalia's parliament-in-exile in Djibouti, Ahmed not so much offered as threw an olive branch at Obama. "America has become a force which supports peace … We think the American view of Somalia is now positive," he told Egypt's el-Shorouk newspaper.more,,http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/05/somalia-election-america-obama
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