NOR: Rebuilding Somalia takes positive strides despite the numerous odds

Internally displaced Persons (IDPs) queue to receive food donated by local people in Daynile, Somalia on July 13, 2019. The Horn of Africa state is struggling to rebuild after decades of civil strife. PHOTO | XINHUA

Somalia’s image, has for decades, been associated with persistent insecurity, food shortage and institutional collapse, but evidence now abounds that the country was making progressive strides.

Somalia watchers must be waiting anxiously as the country hurtles towards the 2021, the regionally agreed deadline for the transition to a constitutional democracy.