Dr. Durry said he hoped that parents whose children were paralyzed would speak up at local decision-making councils, called shuras, that are common in tribal areas, and possibly put pressure on warlords to rescind the ban.
Mullah Rockety, who fought the Russians, joined the Taliban because they took on the warlords, and once berated Osama bin Laden for his extremism, has now set his sights on parliament.
"Women, War & Peace," at 10, follows the thousands of Liberian women, Christian and Muslim, who took on the warlords and regime of the dictator Charles Taylor amid a brutal civil war and won peace for their country in 2003.
With financial support from local businessmen the courts, popular with Mogadishu residents for curbing some of the anarchy and providing basic services, built up a militia capable of taking on the warlords.
A few days before the grenade attack, Lieutenant Evangalista remembered gathering his troops together and watching the movie "Blackhawk Down," a blood-and-guts tale of American soldiers taking on Somali warlords.
They raged on as the warlord Charles G. Taylor began fighting his way to power in 1989.
Mr. Kuhns landed in Somalia during the country's civil war, not long after an American helicopter was shot down in Mogadishu, the capital, during a raid on a warlord's forces.
A social media campaign to shine a light on Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony has attracted ire of its own after critics attacked its methods.
It appears that the sitting President has been looking for a way to end his reign by one magnanimous act, just like a warlord on his feast day.
