These are precarious days for Somalia. If its weak transitional government and the surging Islamists can be made to share power after the two sides signed a tentative peace agreement last week, then the country could see its first peace since 1991. If not, Somalis could fall into a proxy war of Afghan proportions, only this time with the Americans backing the secular forces and the Islamists getting help from those who once sympathised with Afghanistan's mujahideen. Much will depend on how Somalia's Islamists behave.
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