Why would you think CHINA and russia wouldn’t want a strong Ethiopia/Kenya. China has massive investments in both Kenya and Ethiopia and is on the brink of owning the former. Russia doesn’t want anything but stronger allies/cronies to counter NATOs world domination.
the chinese have already debt traps loans given to the ethiopians and kenyans. they will become under chinese rule very soon. the whole reason kenya is fighting for a piece of our waters is to pay the chinese back for the ridiculous loans the kikiyus accepted.
Russia and china want an ally with an coastline, ethiopia is landlocked and kenya lost their coastline to tanzania and somalia, with mombasa going to the chinese anyway. without an coastline they can say bye bye to their economies. since the somali economy will inevitably brake theirs.
the real question is who do they want, weak states that are hold togheter by their western enemies. or a nation that is keen on independence. if we gave our independence up like our neighbours we would be flourising by now. however we didn't and that speaks for itself.
the somali state used to be respected in the international community. a level of respect no one in our region has got in our absence in the past 3 decades. they (our neighbours) know we will eat them up diplomaticly when we are united.