ABDI SHEIKH SOMALIA’S Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has committed himself to free and fair polls and signed an agreement with regional presidents to allow indirect elections to take place after delays had prompted a crisis. Clan elders were meant to have selected lawmakers in December, who in turn were due to elect a new president on February 8. Both procedures failed to take place, amid disputes over issues that included the composition of an election commission that would supervise the voting. The disagreements caused concern that clans could turn on each other and that the al Shabaab Islamist group,…