Afyare Abdi Elmi

Only a prag­mat­ic ap­proach can lift So­ma­lia out of its cur­rent cri­sis.

As So­ma­lia faces yet an­oth­er famine, donors should learn from the suc­cess­ful aid mod­el Turkey em­ployed in the coun­try.

Sub­stan­tive change in deal­ing with So­ma­lia is long over­due.

Which po­lit­i­cal sys­tem can end So­ma­lia’s vi­cious cy­cle of po­lit­i­cal crises?

For a con­sti­tu­tion to be cre­at­ed suc­cess­ful­ly, the process must be trans­par­ent, in­clu­sive and thor­ough­ly de­bat­ed.

The blame game should stop and the in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty must ad­dress the sit­u­a­tion be­fore it gets too late.

The US ap­proach to state­build­ing has in­ad­ver­tant­ly led to more clan di­vi­sions, but youth groups are press­ing for uni­ty.

So­ma­lia is be­ing run by many mas­ters with ir­rec­on­cil­able agen­das, but this ex­ploita­tion must end if peace is to pre­vail.

Un­til deep­er po­lit­i­cal and con­sti­tu­tion­al con­flicts are set­tled, ap­point­ing new of­fi­cials may well be a fu­tile ex­er­cise.