Affairs

High noon for Sharif

Preface

The new president of Somalia, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, has a lot to contend with: pirates, a humanitarian disaster and deadly rivals. But is he the man to revive the failed state? We meet him in Nairobi during a round of shuttle diplomacy.

Credits

Photographer: Riccardo Gangale
Writer: Steve Bloomfield



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