Source:DEVEX
Flag of Somalia. Academic and civic activist Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been elected as Somalia’s new president. Photo by: Stuart Price / U.N. Photo / CC BY-NC-ND
Somalia made history Monday (Sept. 10) with its “first and fair elections” in 40 years. The election of a new president also marks the completion of the country’s political transition.
With a 190 to 79 vote, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud defeated outgoing president Sheik Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. Mohamud, many claim, is a political novice, entering politics only when he founded the political party Peace and Development in 2011.
If the people of Somalia could be assured of good governance, transparency and accountability, justice and respect of their rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of worship,then it will be called a new dawn for this unfortunate country whose two complete generations suffered. New president has to take care of Islam’s fundamentalism and extremism. Let religion be the private matter of individuals and state should run only the governmental affairs. Somalian by nature are very good and it is a great nation. Instead looking at Saudi Arabia, Pakistan or Indonesia go and study the role model of Ghana and see how societal and religious harmony is working and how that tiny country is progressing and prospering. Be Almighty enable the new president and nation to march on right and correct path. Amin