Our main obstacle in Somalia is clan pride/loyalty takes priority over national pride/loyalty, this makes it impossible for us as a nation and ethnicity to compete in the international arena and globalism, and our foreign competitors knows this very well and will do anything to keep the status quo.
For starters the federal project was meant to keep us divided, but I say we should use it, one thing I like about federalism is that it codifies our clan allegiances which adds a hurdle for foreign agents and spies who wish to use it against us, as of now and for the past 26 years clan sectarian dynamics in Somalia has been naked and transparent, reer hebel vs reer hebel, if anything federalism will complicate this for the naked eyes of watchful foreign cooperations and nations who have vested interest in resources and maintaining instability.
I hope 2018 is going to be the year Somalis get their shit together, I am heading over there in the summer. Mogadishu

