"Withdrawal of al-Shabab Offers Hope to Somalia's Transitional Government"

I'm quoted in Mariama Diallo's piece on Voice of America. Here's one of my quotes from the piece:

There are those who think more latitude ought to be given to Western aid agencies, there are those who don’t want Western aid in but they do allow the Islamic aid agencies. If I had to look at any mistake that al-Shabab has made in the last couple of years, this is by far the biggest: they’ve absolutely botched the relief effort and the Somali people don’t like it.

Here's the video: