Italy secretly funded its favored pro-Italian party’s UN delegate but not the SYL’s

Evidence

Clear evidence of this wish was the favor the Italians extended to the representative of HDMS, Abdulkadir Zoppo, when he traveled to New York to participate in the 1955 trusteeship council meeting. The SYL’s Abdirazak H. Hussen also traveled to the same UN meeting. The Italian government funded the cost of the HDMS delegate, while the SYL emissary had to subsist on the meager allowance ($1,000) the party provided. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 325

Categorization

• QUESTION: How widely known were these funding imbalances among Somali voters, and did they shape later resentment of pro-Italian parties and the 1969 coup?