Farmajo’s attack on Kenya a survival tactic

Somalia is a broken country in a fix; full of broken dreams and ambitious politicians who have plunged it into the geopolitical wilderness. It is manipulated by extra-continental forces using ‘leaders’ whose allegiance is mostly to foreign countries rather than Somalia.

Sometimes, those leaders like picking fights with Somalia’s neighbours which helps to divert attention from mounting domestic problems. It has two favourite targets in diverting attention — Kenya and Ethiopia — but it is Kenya that gets most of Somalia’s manufactured wrath. Recently, the Somali government tried to pick a fight with Kenya to divert attention from its domestic problems.