UNDETERRED COMMERCIAL CRIMES DERAILING INVESTMENTS AND SOMALI RECONSTRUCTION
October 1st, 2016
SECURITY and peace is slowly returning to Somalia, as its internationally-recognised government slowly gains power and extremist insurgents lose authority. But while relative safety is encouraging the return of entrepreneurs, it also emboldens commercial criminals. Ramadhan Rajab reports.
SALIM Nur, 49, had hoped to be part of Somali’s renewal by waging a war - not on the military frontline, but using markets as battlegrounds for economic revival. However – his hopes and plans have been stymied by commercial crime.
In 2012, Nur wound up his Kenyan ...
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