Somalia: regional elections, al Shabaab rehabilitation

Summary The pathway is clearing for Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur to run for the presidency of the South West State of Somalia. Robow, a politically rehabilitated former deputy commander of the Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab, will be supported so as to help secure Somalia’s modest transition from a state of Islamist insurgency to measurable growth and development. Analysis Somalia will conduct regional elections on December 5, and Robow had been one of several contenders for the country’s South West State, which straddles the portion of southern Somalia from the Indian Ocean coastline to the Ethiopian border, bounded by …

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