No breakthrough is yet achieved to work out the optimal relationship between the new government and Somaliland or Puntland authorities as well as finding common ground with faction leadership. At the moment, security remains a problem. The government's attempt to interrupt weapons consignment from Ethiopian government to one of Somali militia 40 kilo metres south of Mogadishu, was a failure. The removal, on 7 December, of the police chief General Yacin Yabeh Gaab, led a small-scale coup attempt in a tiny state of Djibouti the next day. It looks an irony of a president seen to yearn for fixing the problems of neighbouring states while abandoning his own people.
Sources downplay the existence of significant disenchantment causing popular uprising in Djibouti.
The standstill between police and the army ended when the army overwhelmed former. French army denies reversing the coup but the general, who had sought refuge in the French military base, was handed over two days after the coup. President Guelleh and General Yacin are said to be long time friends. Both were born in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. And both were students together and returned to Djibouti from France prior to independence.