I agree, seems like as soon as we took a few good steps in the right direction. Ethiopia felt threatened and decided to destabilise us hence I really don’t understand this concept of “muhh horn integration” lol. Ethiopia is a fucking existential enemy. Somali politicians need to let go this need to co-exist with Ethiopia including the cheese man who ridiculously pushed Egypt to the curb.There is literally a multitrillion dollar trade volume passing through those waters on a annual basis. If they ditched the deal, got recognition and made a multibillion deal with China to siphon off that maritime trade like Tanzania, SL would be the richest part of the Horn within a decade. Where does this BS of needing ‘Ethiopia’ come from? Add the oil, gas and gemstone potential, as well as its strategic pedigree to host a potential US or Chinese base (or both) and its clear why so many elements in the region want war to erupt in this area and the wider Somali peninsula.
They don’t want the oil to flow, they don’t want the ports to be busy and they don’t want Somali inter-cooperation. They want to entangle Somalis into another several decades of stagnation and war.