Why want to keep berbera when you have kismayo Mogadishu and bossaso ports that you can develop the same way as Berbera
Berbera is the future of east of Africa and will hold the largest port in all of Africa. Unfortunately HAG want to keep us in this union between Somaliland and Somalia to maintain a political hegemony over a somali dawlad in east africa. Somaliland getting recognized would run laps around all east African countries.
Somaliland recognition will destabilise the Horn not because of smaller regions making noise but EA countries will take sides to keep Somalis weak. Ethiopia and Kenya will support Somaliland to spite Mogadishu. I don't expect you to agree with the 60/40 deal, but i am basing this on what some of the 90s leaders proposed, Somaliland is the smaller half of the Republic, can you imagine if Djibouti leaders proposed joining Somalia on a 50/50 deal?
Mj are scared of Somaliland being recognized because they don't want to be left alone with hawiye and the more southern inclined political savvy marehan. That is why they are pushing Ogaden to flood the Jubbas incase of the inevitable outcome of Somaliland recognition. They are terrified of harti joining Somaliland and that's why their borders are based on daroodism in their own constitution.
In 1960 the supreme Garaad of all Dhulbahante spoke on behalf of his people
against the union of Somaliland and Somalia. Did his clans anti union position matter? Did anyone argue to keep eastern sool as somaliland and the rest of Somaliland to unify with Somalia, of course not. It's it's ridiculous claim. The same thing exists today. The majority of Dhulos in somaliland are pro Somaliland but even if all non isaaqs who make up ~15% of Somaliland were anti Somaliland, the majority still rules and a UN sponsored referendum will definitely prove that outcome. But the reality is that of that ~15% , only a small section are anti Somaliland and their arguments are not political but just plain cuqdad based tribalism. Hence this strange obsession with regions they are minorities in or the aggrandizement of 2 square km irrelevant border villages like buhoodle.
The majority of HAG on here are sheegato but I don't think you are so I will be direct with you mate. Isaaq and HAG don't have bad blood between each other, but there is definitely bad political blood, and that's from the HAG side. Forget the 50/50 split which is how any nation one earth would unite, we were dumb in 1960 and gave you lot 100% of everything and you divided it with darood to undermine Isaaq, Dir and the rest of the Somalis. The wanlaweyn scandal of the 1960s is proof to that where the wanlaweyn town had a higher voter outcome than all waqooyi galbeed. Our political cultures are to different to unite and that's why hawiye choose to break breed with darood, and darood in return use xamar to fight Isaaq, whether it was from 1969-1991 or with whatever little they could do after the state collapsed
HAG wants to own Somaliland due to fear of outcomes like you mentioned and because of the economic power Somaliland holds. If Somaliland was recognized why would we give a f*k about Ethiopia and Kenya plans to spite Somalia? The longer we are unrecognized and the longer HAG are anti Somaliland, the further apart we will be in the long run. If somaliland gets recognized by the rest of the world while xamar is anti, then you've gambled with the potential of a good Somali country that could help Somalia as a whole. HAG need to reassess their reasoning because everyone can see that Somaliland is unavoidable and it's only a matter of time.