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Discreet consensus on money transfers

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Up to now sanctioned by the UN and the EU for their alleged links with the Al-Shabaab radical Islamists, the Somalian money transfer operators (MTOs) are gradually coming out of the firing line of the international institutions – much to [.

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Spotlight | Somalia
Discreet consensus on money transfers

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Spotlight | Somalia
Discreet consensus on money transfers

Somalia
Hormuud Telecom tightens its grip on mobile banking

Djibouti
Caught between Djibouti and Mogadishu, Salaam African Bank changes hands

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Somalia
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Somalia
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Kenya, Somalia
Nairobi plays for time in border dispute with its neighbour

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