Hope In Somalia?

Hope Of A New Dawn In Somalia As Hundreds Flee Islamists' Ranks -- The Telegraph

Mogadishu is enjoying its longest period of relative peace since the 1980s, writes Nick Meo in the Somali capital. Is it possible that the country has turned a corner?

The last time a headless body was kicked out of a pick-up truck and dumped in the dirt in front of Fatima Ali's roadside shop, she was so used to it that she didn't bother to find out who it was.

At the time, three weeks ago, the Islamist al-Shabaab group still held her home town of Afgoye, a row of tin shacks straddling a key junction half an hour's drive outside Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.

Their fighters were paranoid and desperate, becoming more brutal as they retreated, and executing any government soldier or suspected spy who fell into their hands.

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My Comment: Somalia is still a failed state, with a culture and mindset that is representative of such a failed state. It will take generations to have a return to some normalcy .... and even then everything can quickly reverse to the nightmare that has been Somalia for the past two decades.
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