I hear that 60 officials were sent from Mogadishu to the Soviet Union, some of whom were expected here in Italy to study. It is evident that the government there has decided everything without me regarding the Soviet Union (arms, etc., etc.), purposely forgetting what I had recommended … Abdi- rashid [Sharmarkee] did not think that it is I who has to sign the agreement in the end

Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, loc. 658