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Katrina Manson

Can One Woman Fix a Failed State?

Hodan Osman on Harvard University’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 16, 2018. (Source: Natalie Montaner/Harvard Kennedy School)

On the afternoon that Hodan Osman watched an acquaintance enter the central bank, she did a double take.

It wasn’t his army uniform that concerned her. Nor that he was flanked by his men. Hodan was used to soldiers; Somalia was fighting a jihadi insurgency. Explosions and gunfire were commonplace, and the capital Mogadishu was a lattice of nervy checkpoints.

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