Italy staffed its Somali trusteeship administration largely with fascist-era colonial officials

Evidence

The first sign of the return of the prewar order was the recruitment of the senior Italian staff for the trusteeship administration from the old school, as a British diplomat observed, … The Italian Officials who have come to Somalia, with the exception of the Chief Administrator and possibly a few others, are entirely Fascist minded; in fact they are all, with very few exceptions, old Colonial Servants who served under and for the Fascist regime. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 283