“It's a new dawn for Somalia-Kenya relations that has been wracked by deep mistrust for the last ten years,” said Mohamed Husein Gaas, director of Raad Peace Research Institute.
Somalis are asking: What will President Mohamud do differently this time around? Will he pull it off? Will his rule be a first term redux? Or Will he pull it off?
The damning accusation against the premier came as a surprise to many. On Feb. 19, he called the deal "illegal, unacceptable since it wasn't done through legal avenues.”