after the war, britain wanted to put all of the places somalis lived in one country, which would be a british protectorate. the ethiopians complained that they should be able to keep the areas they conquered, and the italians also complained the same thing, so in the end the ethiopians got to keep their bit, and the italians did too. however, italian somaliland was put under a united nations mandate, so the italians could not make it a colony.