MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region said on Monday it had cut all ties with the central government in a likely setback to efforts to pacify the Horn of Africa Country as it emerges from two decades of...
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Barclays bank is under growing pressure to reverse a "kneejerk" decision to pull the plug on UK companies that allow people to send money home to support families in some of the world's most desperately poor countries.
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MEETING OF THE HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE TROOP CONTRIBUTING COUNTRIES OF THE AFRICAN UNION MISSION IN SOMALIA (AMISOM), ETHIOPIA AND SOMALIA: KAMPALA, UGANDA; 4TH AUGUST 2013
COMMUNIQUÉ
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The Somali city of Kismayo "should be handed over" to the central government, regional leaders said at the end of a summit Sunday, a decision that puts pressure on Kenyan troops...
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Africa Research Institute (London)
By Edward Paice, 31 July 2013
Interview
In May 2013, Barclays informed three-quarters of its clients in the money services business that it was closing their bank accounts....
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CHICAGO (CN) - Two men who distributed a drug-containing plant, popular in Somalia but largely unknown in the United States, out of an Indianapolis coffee shop cannot overturn drug conspiracy convictions, the 7th Circuit ruled.
"This case introduces a new...
Total installed electricity capacity (2008): 65 MW
Thermal : 93.3%
Hydroelectric: 4.4%
Total primary energy supply (2008): 5,352 ktoe
Biomass: 96%
Oil and oil products: 3.98%
Hydroelectric: 0.02%
Somalia has the lowest consumption of modern forms of energy in Sub-Saharan Africa. Somalia has long relied on...
Ankara, July 30, 2013 (SDN) —Turkish Parliament Speaker Cemil Çiçek paid a visit to the wounded police officers at an Ankara hospital on July 30, condemning the attack on a Turkish Embassy annex in the Somalian capital Mogadishu. Çiçek...