Somalia’s Somewhat Friendly Skies
July 12th, 2013
Courtesy of the New York Times, an interesting look at the nascent Somali airline industry: Aden Abdulle International Airport, Mogadishu, September 2011. One recent morning at the start of the Kenyan rainy season, I boarded a shuttle bus at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. At a distant corner of the tarmac, we stopped before an […]
Read more »Welcome To Mogadishu
June 2nd, 2013
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Somalia: Boys repairing fishermen’s nets on Mogadishu seafront You can see where their heads hit the roof,” says a member of Somalia’s bomb squad. He is showing me pictures of the latest co-ordinated suicide attack. Even in the mess that mingles body parts of victims and perpetrators, […]
Read more »Oilmen Ready For Risky Push Into Somalia
May 16th, 2013
Via Energy Daily, a look at planned oil development in Somalia: Foreign companies are getting ready to undertake the risky business of exploring for oil in war-torn Somalia, a quest that could trigger new conflict as the Western-backed government struggles to stop die-hard Islamist insurgents. “The world’s leading oil companies are increasingly accepting that their […]
Read more »Somalia: Bringing International Bandwidth To Mogadishu
May 10th, 2013
Via Balancing Act, an interesting look at Somalia’s telecom sector: It may be two steps forward and one step back but Somalia is beginning to pick itself up off the ground after years of civil war. In the absence of regulation, a telecoms sector has developed. Now the new Government must put in place regulation […]
Read more »A Somali Spring?
September 27th, 2012
Via Foreign Policy, a report on Somalia: After the twin suicide attacks that killed 14 people in Mogadishu last week and an assassination attempt on the president a little more than a week before that, predictions of a Somali Spring would seem to be, at the very least, premature. But buried beneath the grisly headlines […]
Read more »East Africa: The Last Great Frontier In the Hunt For Hydrocarbons?
March 13th, 2010
Via Time, an interesting report on the renewed interest in East Africa’s hydrocarbon potential. As the article notes: “…According to local lore, Portuguese travelers as far back as the late 19th century suspected that oil might lie beneath parts of East Africa after noticing a thick, greasy sediment wash up on the shores of Mozambique. […]
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