Dhanani is a No-Go for Somalia

Katherine Dhanani was nominated by the Obama administration to serve as ambassador to Somalia and is the first official U.S. envoy to the country in more than 20 years. On May 11, 2015, Ms. Dhanani withdrew her nomination to the post of Ambassador to Somalia stating personal reasons.

Ms. Dhanani has a B.A. from Kenyon College and an M.A. from MIT. She currently serves as Director of the Office of Regional and Security Affairs in the Bureau of African Affairs in the Department of State, and she has no intention of ending up as Chris Stevens did in Baghdad.

The U.S. Embassy closed in Somalia in 1991 when its government collapsed in a civil war. The State Department, with such leaders as Marie Harf, had planned to put Dhanani in Kenya until security conditions would allow the embassy in Mogadishu to reopen. Thankfully, Hillary Clinton is no longer Secretary of State and the risk of ambassadors dying at the hands of Islamic terrorists has decreased in our embassies, but Dhanani, being a college graduate and no fool has decided not to take the chance of being put in an embassy with the good chance of leaving that assignment in a pine box. 

John-Hairplugs-Kerry was the first secretary of state to visit Somalia in order to deepen ties with that backward nation. He has stated that Somalia is a great place to visit, but he wouldn't want to live there.





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