Majeerteen lands weren't colonies the boqors signed deals with the Italians and became protectorates...
"In late 1889, Boqor Osman entered into a treaty with the
Italians, making his realm an Italian
protectorate. His rival Sultan Kenadid had signed a similar agreement vis-a-vis his own Sultanate the year before. Both rulers had signed the protectorate treaties to advance their own expansionist objectives, with Boqor Osman looking to use Italy's support in his ongoing power struggle with Kenadid over the Majeerteen Sultanate. Boqor Osman and Sultan Kenadid also hoped to exploit the conflicting interests among the European imperial powers that were then looking to control the Somali peninsula, so as to avoid direct occupation of their territories by force.
[13]"
Nice try but you hid some of the information...
"The relationship between the
Sultanate of Hobyo and Italy soured when Sultan Kenadid refused the Italians' proposal to allow a
British contingent of troops to disembark in his Sultanate so that they might then pursue their battle against the Somali religious and nationalist leader
Mohammed Abdullah Hassan's
Dervish forces.
[13] Viewed as too much of a threat by the Italians, Sultan Kenadid was eventually exiled to
Aden in Yemen and then to
Eritrea, as was his son
Ali Yusuf, the heir apparent to his throne.
[14]"
We may have had our own inter-qabil conflicts but we never betrayed the Muslims of the darawiish forces even when they fought us in fact one of the top funders of the darawiish was the boqor of the hobyo sultanate aun. Unfortunately some of the Isaaq subclans (mainly habar awal) sided with the Brits against the Muslims and so they fell into a nullifer of Islam.