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Kismaayo puzzle: An old wine in a new bottle

The high concentration of creating an autonomous administration in the southernmost regions of Somalia by solely Kenya and its interlocutors had cultivated a new looming future across the country which otherwise those populations could have been expected a relatively calm situation once the ferocity of Alshabaab is dismantled. However, contrary to that aspiration; it came obvious that the liberators of Kismaayo had no faith in consultation with the popularly elected national leaders of Somalia that also dying for the ultimate and sincerely support from both Kenya and those with its Somali cronies lobbying with the creation of a regime exclusively envisioned outside Somalia. This newly created political suspicion is firmly rooted on two existing political cultures in Somalia - Clan Supremacy and Land Expropriation !   Right from the Italian colonization to the Post-Independent regimes as well as in the anarchy period, these two perspectives have been utilizing by the dominant pol