This news comes on the back of the Somali government attendance to the Jerusalem conference in Istanbul which was attended by all Islamic countries.
This move should be understood as part of a wider geopolitical plan, when the US cuts aid, it's a sign that their tutelage system is being rejected, the reason they are able to give aid is because of how much they pillage Somalia as well as the rest of the world.
Their entire aid budget doesn't make up 1% of the real assets & wealth they loot, why else would you have 4 clandestine CIA bases in the poorest country in the world long before shabab or ICU ever existed ?
People should read the famous book that exposed this imperialist system titled "Low intensity operations: Subversion, Insurgency and Peace Keeping" to understand how these people operate all over the world.
Amisom is the peace keeping arm that will facilitate the pillaging, the insurgency arm is al-shabab which gives the legitimacy and the subversion is what you see happening right now by undermining any institution from being ever built or self sufficiency from being ever obtained (all covert actions)
The Somali government want's al-shabab out and it's own army to take over, both of which go against the imperial tutelage system, everything else is just useless noise for the consumption of the ignoramus.
I don't really see a way out in the near future for a few reasons, the most damning is exemplified by the comments of
@Abdalla who like a true dupe from the comfort of the west is willing to fight for a qabiilist cause which none of the leaders of his clan even care about.
If a western educated diaspora tahriib ciyaal caano booro kid has this mindset, then don't blame those back home from having a similar mindset, this is the biggest reason for our collective down fall, even our iman's and intellectual's are not free from this curse.
I one time overheard an Iman say after an explosion in Xamar (don't these people finish!) among his peers (of the same clan). With these people he meant that entire Qabiil not the one who blew himself up.
This leads to the ascendancy of our worst people in leadership position as well as all our wealth being which we could use to change our conditions being concentrated in the hands of the greatest idiots with no vision.
If Hormuud or Dahabshiil were visionaries, a lot of our present conditions could have been cured a very long time ago, long before all the Heyna's ever came to the table.