MOGADISHU (Sunatimes)- After public outrage over the sell of Somalia’s domain to a Japanese firm by Somali officials, t he Ministry of Information denied recent reports saying that a Japanese company has purchased the Internet domain of Somalia.

Speaking at a recent news conference he held in Mogadishu, the minister of information, posts and telecommunication, Abdikarin Hassan Jama, denied that the Internet domain of Somalia had been sold to a Japanese company. Saying those reports to that effect were baseless.

“That’s not true and we as Somali government cannot allow such grubby deals” he said.

Similarly, the Director General of the Ministry of Information, Posts and Telecommunication, Eng Ahmad Mohammad Adan, who spoke on the occasion, said that the previous government had signed a contract with a Japanese company which, he said, maintains the Somali Internet. However, he said there are people being trained for the TFG government of Somalia and their training was going on in Nairobi, Kenya.

However, there have been allegations in recent times that the Internet domain of Somalia had been selling to a Japanese company although the minister strongly denied it.

Somalia has been without government since 1991 after dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was ousted from power by armed warlords who turned the horn of Africa nation into decades of endless war.

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