The top U.N. official for war-torn Somalia says the country is no longer a failed state but a recovering fragile country.
Nicholas Kay, the outgoing representative for the U.N. Secretary General in Somalia, says in the last three years the country has stabilized but there is still a lot of work to do.
Kay said Somalia's Islamic extremist group al-Shabab will not succeed in undermining the progress being made but the prospect of al-Shabab elements pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group is a real concern.
Somalia has been torn by decades of conflict since the 1991 ouster of long-time dictator Siad Barre.
