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After a protracted, hotly contested and sometimes violent electoral transition process, in mid-May 2022, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud assumed the presidency of the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) for the second time. He arrived at a time when al-Shabaab remained a potent military force across significant parts of Somalia. Between 16 December 2020 and 6 September 2021, for example, al-Shabaab’s fighters conducted 1,047 attacks on Somali and African Union (AU) targets, according to the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia.1 This represents an average of about 4 attacks every day.