President Obama has appointed Katherine Simonds Dhanani to be the new ambassador to Somalia from the United States. Katherine Simonds Dhanani has previously served as an ambassador from the United States to Guyana, India, and Mexico. She also is familiar with affairs in Africa as she has also served as ambassador from the United States in many African countries including Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Katherine Simonds Dhanani will be working from Kenya until Mogadishu, the Somali capital becomes more secure. Somalia has been devastated by the Al-Shabab militant group who continually gives any sort of Somalian government trouble. The United States left Somalia in 1991 due to the collapse of the Somalian government. The United Nations then sent a peacekeeping mission to try and stabilize the nation of Somalia. Due to "Black Hawk Down," a mission in which 18 U.S. soldiers were killed due to their helicopters being targeted by Somalian rebels. The U.S. then ended the peacekeeping mission.
The United States has not yet given up on Somalia. With an ambassador to the United States, there are still hopes that Somalia will be able to maintain a democracy and prosper. It will be hard as long as Al-Shabab is still in the area. African Union forces were able to drive the group out of the capital of Somalia in 2011. Al-Shabab is affiliated with Al-Qaeda who is anti-democracy. Somalia is slowly coming out of years of war and democracy will be a very good thing for the Somalian people and allow for their economy to grow.
http://time.com/3721530/obama-somalia-ambassador/
Cara Howell
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