Nothing was hidden or debated. It’s well known a devided and fragmentet people can be taken advantage of by playing the devide and conquer game
Not really. There was a strong belief that the FGS could just give Somaliland a shitty deal like Federalism and pay no additional cost but that's been disproven at least. Also that blue wave/revolution from 2022-2023 finally gone to so closer to practical discussion but not there yet. Not saying it will ever get there but closer than 12 months ago definitely. No one can pretend the FGS is in some position of inevitably taking charge which a lot of people were pushing.