Return to office hands Mohamud chance to reshape troubled Somalia

Within hours of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s return as president of Somalia, the US announced it would redeploy 500 troops to aid in the fight against the terrorist group al-Shabaab. The immediacy of the move reflected an unavoidable truth of modern Somalia: there can be no true progress unless the security situation improves.

The scholarly Mohamud, who first served…