Abdihakim
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The Cost of Ignoring the Kismayo Crisis
Though often caricatured as a violent failed state, Somalia has been calm for the last year.Though often caricatured as a violent failed state, Somalia has been calm for the last year. Piracy activity has dramatically dwindled and now accounts for less than West Africa. Despite this week’s heinous bombing of a UN compound in Mogadishu, the al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, which once controlled vast areas of Somalia, is now in retreat. The international community has shown increasing confidence in the country, too: The UK has just re-opened its embassy, and the US…Abdihakim5 min read