Kenya and ethiopia are somalias most influential external players, these two countries are againist strong somali central state and told this to the west for a long time.
They only accept a fragmented somalia with some regions closely linked to them.
These two countries are the driver behind the federalism, thus, the somali politics should be fragmented along tribal lines based on three federal tribal states... Puntland, mogadisho and jubbaland
These countries have sent a lot of secret reports about somalia to the west, using the jihadist, refugee and security cards and indeed had a significant influence on them.
Though the westreners didn't approved all their suggestions but still all their clues about somalia are from these countries and this is why hassan sheekh is confronting all these external problems
Somalias hassan sheekh would be vastly different if these external problems were removed
Wikileaks report on these contacts on somalia
DAS Wycoff told Wetangula that the USG
continued to strongly oppose the Kenyan "Jubaland" initiative as a
bad idea that would more likely add to Somalia's instability than
to help stabilize the country. Wetangula defended GOK plans to
pursue its Jubaland (southern Somalia) initiative, implied that it
was in evolving concept, and offered to facilitate better USG
understanding of Kenya's plans.
Now what is the american position?
America has approved on hassan sheekhs 6 pillars policy in order to maintain stability and peace first but there is some clash between them wich is about the federalism. The US has asked him to appoint his interim governors but after this term ends has to bring the system closer to a genuine federalism by holding a regional elections...
All that is agreed, the problem is that Hassan sheekh wants the govt to control the port revenues in the federalism era so he refused to listen to their clues saying that he will rather resign than grant the federal states this status specifically in the south
The reason is that he fears such a federal state will have contracts with foreing countries on its port and resources and though getting and interim support he doesn't want to sign what could damage him in the long run.
the visit is about this and for more talks. from his side, he wants them to stop kenya and ethiopia at their borders.
Other news
The reason that the airspace office was moved to hargeysa rather than mogadisho is because there is a big problem now between the minister of telecommunication and the SKA south african company that manages mogadisho airport.
This company has a long contract and is rejecting to be replaced with a turkish company and moving the office in there will give them more hopes and influence.
That is the reason why it was moved to hargeysa not because of a policy...however, the head of the joint committee is from mogadisho.
Airspace revenue is $two million a year.
