Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Analysis - Ex-Militant Tests Somalia's Fledgling Democracy

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Last year Mukhtar Robow had a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head. Now the former Islamist al-Shabab militant has downed his guns and donned the garb of a democrat. While Robow is not the first ex-militant to enter Somali politics, the momentum behind his bid to become a regional leader has turned his effort into a watershed moment in the stand-off between the federal government and Somalia’s seven semi-autonomous regions. How Mogadishu and those states ultimately find ways to share...

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