Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy
Banned
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a Somali-run state comprising OTL Somalia, Djibouti, the Ogaden, and northeastern Kenya by the present day with a POD after the 1960 creation of Somalia.
That is'n't so hard Doc, had the Soviets kept backing the Somalis and not turned back to the Ethiopians, they would have gotten the Ogaden and later went against the Kenyans to get the ethnic Somalis there.Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a Somali-run state comprising OTL Somalia, Djibouti, the Ogaden, and northeastern Kenya by the present day with a POD after the 1960 creation of Somalia.
Inmediately, Eritrea and Somalia become de facto allies. They draw plans to divide Djibouti into spheres of influence, and when civil war brokes there (in 1991 in OTL, could be earlier or later in the ATL) they intervene to protect "their" citizens there. With the world looking at Kuwait, it's easy to partition a country with no resources and a dubious referendum years later decides the dissolution of the country along ethnic lines: the Afar join Eritrea, and the Issas Somalia.
I think that Soviet or perhaps Arab support is key, you can't do this with USA support. Americans have never liked their client states getting too big/powerful. The west, especially france is definately not going to let them take Djibouti.