Premier Igal pivoted from Pan-Somali confrontation to conciliatory diplomacy with Kenya and Ethiopia.
Evidence
With so little to show for the bold pursuit of the Somali cause favoured by his predecessors, Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Igal decided to see what might be achieved by more conciliatory diplomacy. Following encouraging exchanges with the Ethiopian delegation at the O.A.U. heads of state meeting at Kinshasa in September, Premier Igal met President Kenyatta at Arusha in Tanzania in October and both sides agreed to the immediate normalization of their relations, to the establishment of peace in the N.F.D. and to further negotiations through the good offices of President Kaunda in the search for a final settlement to the problem. In keeping with these developments, diplomatic relations with Britain (which had given military support to the Kenyans in the ‘shifta war’) were restored and steps taken to promote a less anti-Western image to balance the impression inevitably conveyed by the Somali Republic’s increasing military dependence on the U.S.S.R. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 503
Categorization
- XREF: Directly reverses the militant Pan-Somali policy central to earlier chapters on the 1962 Commission and the shifta war. — connects to: Igal abandoned confrontation for conciliatory diplomacy with Kenya and Ethiopia.; The shifta guerrilla war in northern Kenya failed at great civilian cost.; Somalia’s 1956 government focused on internal issues, not external Pan-Somali goals — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 406 (+6 more)
Related
- Igal abandoned confrontation for conciliatory diplomacy with Kenya and Ethiopia. (similarity 0.93)
- Somali foreign policy balanced Pan-Somali nationalism against broader non-aligned interests (similarity 0.87)
- Somali claims won no tangible Pan-African support after early 1960 (similarity 0.82)
- The shifta guerrilla war in northern Kenya failed at great civilian cost. (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Western arms aid to Somalia was conditioned on abandoning Pan-Somali claims
#qualifies(0.60) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 569