Wallahi Somalia has turned a page. May Allah (swt) increase the peace, reconciliation, and progress we are witnessing.
It is so hard for us to remember how things like things would have been unthinkable just couple years ago.
Do we ever stop and think even for a second about just how far Somalia has already come from the heydays of the civil war?
Warlords, paramilitaries, serious clan segregation, and impossible for people to intermix and meet.
Yesterday we had a Hawiye president of Galmudug state having Darod in Caabudwaaq parade for him as their regional leader on the same day we had a Darod federal President having mostly Hawiye in Mogadishu parade for him as their president.
Somalia has come a long way from the heydays of the civil war. Growing pains will continue to exist and people will not always agree on everything, but I think it is important for us to take a few minutes and just acknowledge how far the country has already come.
Xaaf in Caabudwaaq
Farmaajo in Mogadishu