Courting insurgents

Somalia’s new president, Sharif Ahmed, is making a full-court press to broker a peace agreement with Islamist insurgents. But it’s a difficult, and often thankless, task. Heading a “national government” that is more of an aspiration than a reality, his only real tools are the threat of force, and the money provided by foreign donors. And all the while he has to keep the grasping diaspora happy.

The Washington Post