chart looks sick, page-10

Good read Fang you said
"Once the spotlight is turned on Somalia, and western countries get the smell of oil fumes in their nostrils they will act to strengthen the security for those favorable leaders",

You could add what the alternative is that ends up with control of the oil that worries them more, Al Shabaab?

Farole on most accounts is the most attractive on the issue of governance and would be quite easy for Western governments to back.
Great location though, good views of the Red Sea and Yemen.

Range still needs to be shown some confirmation from Farole.
Like all politicians they are prisoners of past rhetoric.
Africa Oil holds the data and I don't think everybody wants’ to start again.

Puntlanders I hope remember who gave most of the Somali diasporas refuge.
It certainly wasn't the "great democracy" of China.