Recap: 1. President MBC and Dr. Abiye have matually agreed to support his initiiative to make the Horn of Africa a peaceful and more integrated region. Presient MBC reminded Dr. Abiye Ahmed that as young Colnel in the Somalia Air Force believed the same ideas and which were why they came to Ethiopia in order to break the cycle of mistrust and animosity that existed between Somalis and Ethiopians. 2. President MBC and Dr. Abiye have agreed to strenghten the already existing economic and security partnership between the two sides. This includes the 600 million dollar Berbera Coorditor project which will be initiated on 28th of February. 3. President MBC underscored that Somaliland sovereignty cannot be changed by the stroke of a pen of the Presidency, rather it is only possibly by Referendum. Hence, if the AU and UN and other International Community want to a Referendum that is binding, then they need to come to the table and we will organise a Referendum on the question. 4. Any new discussion/Talks between Somaliland and Somalia can only take place in an international setting and agreements that reached need to be binding and have consequences.

547. Somalis currently have 24 seats. Unless the Ethiopian Parliament House numbers are increased, it is very unlikely Onlf will 70 let alone 100. To put it in perspective. Amhara currently has 130 plus reps in the federal parliament.

I agree. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck then it’s most likely Abiy’s miscaliberated ambitions. In short, the man is a non-starter. Somalis everywhere should prepare themselves for the eventual and slow collapse of the straw-house that is Ethiopia which Abiy is trying to futilely to lord over. Only a clean slate and genuine political reforms that ensure the dignity and freedoms of all Ethiopia’s peoples could possible avoid the calamity that is heading their way. As it stands, Abiy’s games, like Zenawi before him, will only delay the inevitable for a few more years only.

The plot thickens...