Barclays’ Somalia Remittance Shutdown will Hurt Millions

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Barclays Bank has been criticised by the UK's leading think tank on international development for its decision to close its 250 money-transfer businesses in Somalia. The...

Somali Islamist rebels suspended from Twitter again

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The Twitter account of Somalia's Al Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents was suspended Friday, the second time this year the Islamists have been pushed off the...

Somalia says foreign investigators clear it of U.N. graft accusations

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MOGADISHU - Somalia said on Friday that international investigators commissioned by its government had cleared it of corruption accusations leveled by United Nations monitors. The...

Somalia: From Somalia via Sweden, With Skates

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Somalia:Immigration beat: Groups tout value of money exchanges for Somalia

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More than $215 million a year is sent to Somalia by relatives in the United States, with much of that originating in Minnesota.   The process,...

UN Chief :Somalia Could Still Fail

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, warning that Somalia could slide back into being a failed state, called Tuesday on countries around the world to provide the...

Somalia: Solar lights protect against sex attacks

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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) Chatting women sitting outside makeshift homes at night is a new scene in a once-dark refugee camp in the Somali capital....

Somali president safe after Islamist attack

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MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud escaped unhurt Tuesday from an ambush on his heavily armoured convoy claimed by Al-Qaeda linked Islamists,...

Somalia: August 2013 Update: US covert actions in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia

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September 2nd, 2013 | by Jack Serle and Alice K Ross One strike in Pakistan ends 34-day stretch without an attack. Yemen sees more strikes in a month than any...

Somalia’s lifeline

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Only spoilers win if Barclays shuts shop for remittances There will be many losers if, at the end of this month, Barclays enforces its...