Somali: Give democracy a chance

The transitional Somali government has achieved very little since its formation over 15 months ago. Recent fighting in Mogadishu notwithstanding, senior officials of the Somali transitional federal government maintain that they are making progress in stamping out lawlessness, despite lack of international support. Doubts also persist over the functionality of the transitional parliament. In an exclusive interview with The EastAfrican in Nairobi during the Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU) congress, Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden, the speaker of the Somali transitional parliament argued that the government - currently holed up in Baidoa - could move to Mogadishu within two months if it got support from the international community.