I've been thinking about somalias situation and comparing it with its neighbors and where somalia could potentially be in the next 20-30 years. It's honestly surprisingly not bad. There is the fact that the Indian ocean trade is increasing and some experts predict that it could grow by up to ten fold by the end of the century.which means eastern africa has the most potneial for economic growth and foreign investment out of all of SSa . Somalia is basically 40% of this coast and has the most number of ports. There is also the fact that building infrastructure in somalia is way easier since where basically just flat land compared to Yemen or ethiopoa which are far more mountainous . A third point is that ethiopia and yemen seem to have deeper fault lines in their society. With ethiopia it's the ethnic groups and with yemen it's the shia/sunni divide. There is also the fact that over next couple decades which the somali govt will have oil money for infrastructure and other public projects. When you add up all of these things somalia's economic development seems almost inevitable over a long term horizon of the next 30 Years.