Kenya wants a security buffer zone to protect its valuable tourism industry, a proposed major port and hopes of offshore oil and gas finds.
It also hopes stability would let it send back the half a million Somali refugees it hosts.
Landlocked Ethiopia has long played a powerful role in Somalia, with Kismayo offering another possible route to the sea.
Yet Mogadishu remains upbeat, mindful its position today was unthinkable a few years ago.
"Somalia is fragmented, it's divided into regions, clans, groups," Mohamud said. "The current Somali government is busy with rebuilding and organising to have one Somalia."
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