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Somalia

Risk of famine and shortage of helicopters

Nicholas Kay, who heads the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (Unsom) as well as being the special representative in [...]

Subscribers only 12.06.2014

Oil minister takes matters in hand

Power struggles inside the Somalian government resulted in the last minute cancelling of the Somalia Oil & Gas conference, scheduled in London for 9 June.

Subscribers only Business 06.06.2014

Explosive report on oil sector

Adam Smith International’s study on the extractive industries in Somalia has produced an outcry in Mogadishu.

Free access Business 23.05.2014

Farah Abdi Hassan

Writing in a 14-page long comment sent to the British consultancy Adam Smith International (ASI) last month, the director general [...]

Free access 23.05.2014

Kilimanjaro Capital

Following its acquisition last year of 5% of an oil [...]

Subscribers only Business 23.05.2014

Adam Smith International

The recent 80-page report on the extractive industry in Somalia by Adam Smith International (ASI), had a very frosty reception [...]

Free access Business 23.05.2014

Revolt against President Mohamud

Over a hundred Somalian MPs meeting in Hotel Sahafi in Mogadishu on 5 May called for President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud to resign.

Subscribers only Politics 09.05.2014

Mogadishu applies pressure on ENI

After flirting with the idea of publicly denouncing the Italian company ENI, the Somalian oil ministry finally entered dialogue with its executives.

Free access Business 09.05.2014

Fabrizio Marcelli

The Italian foreign affairs minister Federica Mogherini announced in late April that the Italian embassy in Mogadishu, which has been [...]

Subscribers only 09.05.2014

Diplomatic relations under strain

Mogadishu and Nairobi are verging on a diplomatic crisis because of the way the Kenyan government treats the ethnic Somali [...]

Subscribers only 28.04.2014

Who Bolloré has to talk to in Berbera

Hargeisa has instructed a British lawyer to negotiate with the French group Bolloré to hammer out the details of the agreement to manage Berbera port.

Subscribers only Business 04.04.2014

Hassan Mohamed Hussein

The proposal by the new mayor of Mogadishu, Hassan Mohamed Hussein generally known as Mungab (Hawiye/Abgaal/Ely), to take control of [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.2014

Djibouti contingent becomes a target

The attacks by Al Shabaab radical Islamists against members of the Djibouti army in Somalia are growing.

Subscribers only Politics 21.03.2014

A patchwork of virtual States

Several virtual regional administrations are being created in the southwest of the country, following the lead of Jubaland in Kismayo.

Subscribers only Politics 21.03.2014

Mohamed Deylaf

The reservoir with a capacity to store 40,900 tonnes of diesel oil, jet fuel and other oil products recently inaugurated [...]

Subscribers only 21.03.2014

Abukar A. Osman Mardadi

The president of the new virtual State of Shabelle in south-western Somalia (see here), Abukar Abdi Osman Mardadi (Digil/Garre), is [...]

Subscribers only 21.03.2014

Takaful Insurance of Africa

The Kenyan insurance company Takaful Insurance Africa (TIA) is keen [...]

Subscribers only Business 07.03.2014

Clan militia get the upper hand

Jarat Chopra, the coordinator of the Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring group, sent a letter on 6 February to the United [...]

Subscribers only Politics 21.02.2014

Berbera: Talks with Bolloré making progress

The first official visit to France last week by President Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud aka Silanyo of Somaliland was marked by [...]

Subscribers only 28.01.2014

Daud Mohamed Omar

Somalia’s new mineral resources minister, Daud Mohamed Omar, is a native of the breakaway region of Puntland. And he’s also [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.01.2014

New cabinet, same old power game

Four fifths of the new ministers are MPs. They shouldn’t therefore have too much trouble getting parliament to approve this new cabinet on 21 January.

Subscribers only Politics 24.01.2014

Soma Oil’s Russian sponsors

Soma Oil & Gas, which is headed by Michael Howard, the former chairman of the UK Conservative Party, has found some Russian financial backers.

Free access Business 24.01.2014

Mahad Mohamed Salaad

A young recruit by Somalian President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud, the new Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Mahad Mohamed Salaad (Hawiye/Habar [...]

Subscribers only 24.01.2014

Abdiweli Mohamed Ali

The new president of the autonomous region in the north east of Somalia known as Puntland, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali "Gaas", [...]

Subscribers only 10.01.2014

Jason Daniel McCue

The Briton Jason Daniel McCue, 44, does not only deal with security issues via his MODA Alliance Group of which [...]

Subscribers only 20.12.2013

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Somalia

Risk of famine and shortage of helicopters

Oil minister takes matters in hand

Explosive report on oil sector

Farah Abdi Hassan

Kilimanjaro Capital

Adam Smith International

Revolt against President Mohamud

Mogadishu applies pressure on ENI

Fabrizio Marcelli

Diplomatic relations under strain

Who Bolloré has to talk to in Berbera

Hassan Mohamed Hussein

Djibouti contingent becomes a target

A patchwork of virtual States

Mohamed Deylaf

Abukar A. Osman Mardadi

Takaful Insurance of Africa

Clan militia get the upper hand

Berbera: Talks with Bolloré making progress

Daud Mohamed Omar

New cabinet, same old power game

Soma Oil’s Russian sponsors

Mahad Mohamed Salaad

Abdiweli Mohamed Ali

Jason Daniel McCue

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Faure Gnassingbe

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Michaël Randrianirina

China National Petroleum Corp

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

Somalia

Risk of famine and shortage of helicopters

Oil minister takes matters in hand

Explosive report on oil sector

Farah Abdi Hassan

Kilimanjaro Capital

Adam Smith International

Revolt against President Mohamud

Mogadishu applies pressure on ENI

Fabrizio Marcelli

Diplomatic relations under strain

Who Bolloré has to talk to in Berbera

Hassan Mohamed Hussein

Djibouti contingent becomes a target

A patchwork of virtual States

Mohamed Deylaf

Abukar A. Osman Mardadi

Takaful Insurance of Africa

Clan militia get the upper hand

Berbera: Talks with Bolloré making progress

Daud Mohamed Omar

New cabinet, same old power game

Soma Oil’s Russian sponsors

Mahad Mohamed Salaad

Abdiweli Mohamed Ali

Jason Daniel McCue

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