SOMALIA: Oiling Al-Shabaab's Economic Empire

Al-Shabaab is more than just a terrorist group. In 2011, its annual revenue was in the region of $70–100 million per year. In 2018, the President of the Somali Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) confirmed that Al-Shabaab collected an estimated $20 million dollars from South Somalia alone.

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Somalia:Risk of terrorism financing through mobile money- Hormuud Telesom and Golis ?

-Risk of terrorism financing through mobile money: Al-Shabaab can finance its terrorist activities due to the lack of regulation on mobile money transfers. - Risk of money laundering through mobile money: Money launderers can use mobile money, as they can multiply mobile money accounts without giving…

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Somalia: List of companies that pay Al-Shabaab most - Hormuud Telecom

Al-Shabaab gets a lot of money from Somali business people, especially those in Mogadishu, according to reports published by Washington Post and UN Somalia and Eritrea monitoring group.

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UN Somalia:Underlining the importance of finalising an inclusive political settlement

Underlining the importance of finalising an inclusive political settlement between the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and the Federal Member States (FMS) and recalling the importance of the full implementation of the conditions-based Transition Plan with clear target dates (Transition Plan) which…

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Terrorising the victims of terror in Somalia "a failed elite, and the Western 'War on Terror'."

Terrorising the victims of terror in Somalia. "One wonders what Somalis might have accomplished if they were not sandwiched between pernicious local terrorists, a failed elite, and the Western 'War on Terror'." By ABDI ISMAIL SAMATAR

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President Farmajo Expelled UN Envoy to Deny Accountability and Justice to Somali Victims

Sunatimes.com - For the last 2 years, the Somali people have been painfully struggling to cope with the shocking reality of leadership failure under President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo elected on high hope of him fostering the statebuilding project (not leading established state) of Federal, Democratic…

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impeachment motion against the President of Somalia - National treason

Members of the National Salvation Caucus in the House of the People who tabled the impeachment motion against the President of the Federal Republic of Somalia hereby declare that they have withdrawn the motion for the sake of the people and country's interest after considering the status quo and…

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Somalia: ASOJ condemns the murder of veteran journalist

The Associated Somali Journalists (ASOJ) condemns the murder of veteran journalist and other innocent people by coordinated double suicide bombings in Mogadishu.

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CPJ Report on the harassment & violations of media rights by Mogadishu Mayor Abdirahman Osman.

Police on November 20, 2018, arrested Nur Ismail Sheikh, an editor for the privately owned website Shaaciye, at a Mogadishu hotel where a government official from the Banadir Regional Administration, had asked to meet him, according to Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, a journalist who is familiar with the case,…

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Top Secret:Ethiopia police commissioner lied about the torture of president Abdi Iley

Sunatimes.com - Orommo soldiers have tortured former Somali region in Ethiopia president Abdi Mohamud Omar inside the jail, while his mother, Mrs Deeb, and his wife Sadika were with him, independent media reported.

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Belgium has rejected the asylum request of a woman who is a human rights and young girls' activist in Mogadishu.

Government of Belgium has rejected the asylum request of a woman who is a human rights and young girls' activist in Mogadishu. Ifrah Abdi Guled works for the NGO Daryel Association based in Sweden.

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Somaliland: Somtel Dahabshiil Scandal and Violation"Hacking and surveillance may undermine right to privacy"

Somaliland: "Hacking and surveillance may undermine right to privacy" Although I have been always suspicious of government surveillance, I have never expected a private telecommunication company will act as an agent of the government to seek hacking techniques on its behalf.

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Somalia: The shift from crooked democracy to authoritarianism

Sunatimes.com - Somalia's presidential election last year seen as milestone of corruption by some and others as a fresh start for a war ravaged country is looking more and more like a false dawn – a huge opportunity lost.

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Somalia: A Sitch in the Somali parliament

Sunatimes.com - Mustaf Ali Duhulow is a member of Somali National Assembly who was sworn to serve his war-torn nation, but he instead decided to serve a neighboring country that has sinister geopolitical interest for minor political advantage.

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A Qatari agent in Somali president office

Sunatimes.com - After one year in the office, the Somali federal government President, Mohamed Abdullahi "Farmaajo" proofed himself to be unreliable and not trustworthy to run the highest national political position, according to a survey made by Sunatimes.com and ten independent journalists.

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Foreign Entities Dig a Grave to Bury Somalia

Somalia has significant challenges that may foretell its death, and in fulling this dire prediction, foreign entities are aggressively digging Somalia's grave. Today, there are many authoritative foreign entities who direct Somalia's leadership decisions, and actually dictate policy. These foreign…

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The fake Somaliland election - Warlord Muse Bihi Abdi

"The Fake Somaliland NEC" Open letter to the International Community and Somaliland Friends.

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Somalia: Al-Shabaab Mogadishu taxation $10 - $70,000 Monthly - UN Report

28. Over the course of the present mandate, Al-Shabaab continued to impose taxation on the business community in Somalia (see also S/2016/919, annex 1.6, and S/2015/801, para. 92).

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The UN and Genocide by Starvation in Somalia

Sunatimes.com - According to just released information sourced from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the FSNAU between October 2015 and April 2016, a period of only six months, upwards of 400,000 Somali's, two thirds of whom were children, died of starvation.

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Courageous Dutch lawyer saved my profession of Journalism.

Sunatimes.com - Serving as a media person in Somalia was a horrible exercise that compels you to take many risks including a life-threatening one. The threat is also affecting family members who could be punished because I am exercising my freedom of expression enshrined in the Universal Declaration…

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