Somalia has cancelled UAE security deals, shut down port agreements, and cut off military access to its airspace and that's just for starters. Right, so Somalia has cancelled its security and defence deals with the UAE, torn up port agreements at Berbera, Bosaso and Kismayo, shut off military access to its airspace and territory, and the UAE has already started pulling people and kit out. So why have they done that then Damo? Well, what just disappeared is the assumption that you can always work around the Somali state if you don’t like what Mogadishu says, deal with the regions instead, keep the ports running, and wait for the noise to die down. Except this time the UAE overreached. That option just got removed at state level. And once that goes, even with much regional grumbling, a lot of very confident talk suddenly sounds fragile, because bei ...