Democracy doesn't work in the middle east and Africa because Colonialists put together Waring people that hated each other in one country. Democracy means Demos (People) and Kratos (Strength), ie the people with the biggest numbers rule, and in a country full of different tribes that means the tribes with the biggest numbers have the last say and choice in what goes on in the country, in this case the Oromara alliance which are over 60% of the country. Democracy equals win for you, but an L for everyone else. Democracy doesn't work in Colonial borders, it only works in fully independent homogeneous places. That's why the kikuyu rule kenya, and if full democracy is implemented in Ethiopia, Oromo and Amhara will just keep trading terms and will decided what goes on forever, which isn't acceptable.I agree with you but Abdi was exactly against anything free and democratic. Under him there was no possibility to even know the will of the people. And the new Ethiopian administration is determined to bring full democracy in Ethiopia including holding fully free and fair election in two years time. Everywhere in Ethiopia, even in TPLF stronghold Tigray, oppositions have started coming from exile and operating freely, medias are allowed to report and criticize freely, political prisoners are freed, torture of prisoners is now forbidden etc. But the Somali state is still stuck in the past and the dictator Abdi tries intimidating and attacking any oppostion and anything he sees is against him. This is unconstitutional and many Somali Elders were in Addis for months complaining that Somali state is left out of the current reforms that every Ethiopian is enjoying. This can't go on forever. You can't have freedom, democracy, free media and free elections everywhere but continue the one man dictatorship in Somali state.
Removing Abdi and bringing full democracy will give the Somali people a chance to air their true will and to elect their leaders freely. But with Abdi, we don't even know what the peoples' will is.