The election-in-exile of a new Somali president lends hope to a dire situation, but clan complexities, fragile peace processes and humanitarian crisis make for a very cautious optimism, Georg-Sebastian Holzer writes for ISN Security Watch.
By Georg-Sebastian Holzer for ISN Security Watch
The Somali parliament-in-exile on 31 January elected the 44-year-old cleric Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the former moderate head of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), as their country’s new president. While this has given many a glimmer of hope that the country is on a path to stability, the fundamental political struggles in Somalia remain to be solved.
Sharif Ahmed defeated the candidate favored by the West, Prime Minister Nur Hassan, who was the driving force behind the UN-sponsored Djibouti peace process that was initiated to relaunch talks between the increasingly discredited Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the ever-stronger Islamist opposition.more..http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?ots591=4888CAA0-B3DB-1461-98B9-E20E7B9C13D4&lng=en&id=96201
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