Somali campaigners and Oxfam call for Barclays to reverse the decision to close accounts allowing Somalis in the UK to send money home. Photograph: Andrew Aitchison/Oxfam
Bank agrees to keep money-transfer firm's account open until after verdict, as UK unveils...
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Somalia's Western-backed government is talking to major international oil companies like Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell and BP about resuming exploration programs abandoned when the East African state collapsed into anarchy in 1991.
On...
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October 14, 2013
By David Rothkopf
The White House is mixing it up. Usually after commando raids against terrorist targets, the leaks flow like a fine triumphalist wine. We hear just enough...
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By Fiona Twycross | Published: October 13, 2013
Last week I met two members of London’s Somalian community to talk about Barclay’s decision to pull out of Britain’s £2 billion remittance...
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The European Union and the Somali government spent months preparing for a conference on Somalia, which was held in Brussels on September 16.
Declared as “A New Deal for Somalia” the one day affair’s purpose was to accomplish...
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By Mohamed A. Hussein
When Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was elected last year September 2012 by Somali parliament, it was thought that his government had the best chance of succeeding...