It is very easy for Western educated arm-chair online warriors to say let us do this and that against UAE, but the hundreds of thousands of Somali business owners whose livelihood depends on trade with the Dubai and UAE, it is a disaster to hear this. Let us not be arrogant and play ego games with our people. The UAE refusing to give visas to Somalis is very very bad for the Somali community. The Somali government must fix this.

You mean with Saudi Arabia? From that side its the Saudis that have closer relation to Ethiopia than UAE. Turkey is too big of a country to follow our galbeedi's tantrum behaviour of "if you are friends with Malik you cannot be my friend". These are countries, not teenager school yard players. Ethiopia BTW as you are well aware is one of the few countries that is friends with America, China, Russia, Britain all at the same time and in good standing. Same with Turkey, Israel, and even Iran. I know its hard to understand how this is done. Somalia needs to develop this kind of capacity. Jumping from one frying pan to another will not make the food better. Qatar is also a deadly country and do not forget that as you huff and puff about UAE. Since now you have Oromo PM, Oromo president, Oromo speaker in Ethiopia should not be hard for our galbeedi to work with.

Looking at the flower and table settings, it looks a different venue.

Just how would they fix it? Any suggestions?

And now you can add Somaliland ID cards to it.

Somali people and governments need to diversity their business and diplomatic relationships. May this is a good time to do that.