Here are 3 reasons Somalia is even called:
1. Somalia has seat at UN and IGAD and unlike Djibouti or Sudan or Kenya Eritrea and Ethiopia can pressure or manipulate easily. Why would Isayas who openly spoke about Suakin by naming Turkey be so so with Mogadishu?
2. Eritrea has plan to find a job for its soldiers 300,000 of them. War in Yemen can only take some, but peace keeping in Somalia can take 30-40 thousand if they get OK from US and UAE will contribute or pay the bill. Eritrea then displaces Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya and has monopoly on Somalia.
3. Eritrea can then try and play dirty with Puntland and Somaliland to make them third step and disrupt what ever plans UAE has ports. Chock Djibouti by creating problems with ONLF or Shinnile and take more of Ethiopia. Here controls both Djibouti and Ethiopia. The Oromo need Eritrea a lot in the internal affairs with Tigray and Amhara.
If you are thinking of fuzzy business before putting your house in order, You must be in the clouds.
Ask yurself this: How many times have we seen Eritrea Sudan hugging, boxing, then kissing, then threatening..all the time.
That is typical African diplomacy, but here there is UAE with strategy and money and everyone is saying how high to jump.
Its so funny. All the talk and your thinking is always Tigray this Tigray that. You are not alone. Both Eritrea and Ethiopians are also the same. It looks like only US knows what has happened.