It’s nearly fair season. The summer really races by after the Fourth of July. That rhymes and I didn’t mean to do it.

MOGADISHU/NAIROBI: Clashes between pro-government and separatist militias in a northeastern Somali region have killed at least eight people and wounded 24 more, a local elder said on Wednesday.

Al-Shabaab feeds on silence, on marginalisation, on Nairobi’s fear of alienating voters. But if Kenya turns its democracy ...