https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_al-Aziz_of_Mogadishu
http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his311/lectures/16battut.htm
"Somali travellers identified the island for gold from the 13th century, prior to the Portuguese. Their transient continue to be afterwards ended in a bloody conflict acknowledged by the Somalis as “Dagaal Diig Badaaney” in 1424."
Seychelles is closer to us than Maldives yet we didn't annex it.