Meyle,
SL is a federal state within the Federal Somali Republic. The whole Horn of Africa is going to integrate brother and there is no point standing in the corner in 2013. If you really wanted a country you had your chance in 1960. Let it go mate and understand integration is the way whether you like it or not. Human evolution goes thru various stages, it had individualism, villageism, urbanism, imperialism, comunism, socialism, Islamicism and now its time for integrationism.
Just try to get the best deal before it is too late sxb. I know where the wind is blowing in this and taking the capital away from Hutu is very strategic for both Isaaq and Darood, we will populate the town together and breed new gens together that take us forward while Hutu is still looting each others.
Erigavo is 6-8hours away from Hargeisa compared to 18 hrs away Mogadishu...hostile territory...
Those mountains will protect the capital from enemies...and we could even build bunkers and tunnels under some of them for emergency cases...further more the ports of Hiis, Maid and Las Qorey are stone away.
It would look like Rio De Janeiro with those mountains once we develop it.
And Erigavo
Think about it Isaaq and Darods.