Foreign Policy magazine published on 25 August 2014 a long article titled "Franchise Opportunity: Western Union in Somaliland" by Michela Wrong who has written several books dealing with Africa.
The author looks at the money transfer business and the impact on Somaliland and the Horn of Africa if Barclays gets out of the business.
Showing posts with label Dahabshil. Show all posts
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Monday, August 25, 2014
Monday, March 31, 2014
Somali Remittances
There have been a series of recent articles on the subject of Somali remittances. Africa in Fact, the journal of Good Governance Africa, published on 1 April 2014 a piece titled "From Mogadishu to Minneapolis, And Back" by Brian Klaas, a scholar at Oxford University.
The Rift Valley Institute in Nairobi, Kenya, published in March 2014 an analysis titled "Challenges for the Somali Money Transfer Sector" by Anna Lindley and Jason Mosley.
The London-based Africa Research Institute (ARI) published on 27 January 2014 a piece titled "Somali Remittances: 10 Things You Need to Know" by Hannah Gibson, policy researcher at ARI. It is also available in French.
The Africa Research Institute published on 14 February 2014 an article titled "Somali Remittances Update: Banking Up the Wrong Tree" by Edward Paice, director of ARI.
The Rift Valley Institute in Nairobi, Kenya, published in March 2014 an analysis titled "Challenges for the Somali Money Transfer Sector" by Anna Lindley and Jason Mosley.
The London-based Africa Research Institute (ARI) published on 27 January 2014 a piece titled "Somali Remittances: 10 Things You Need to Know" by Hannah Gibson, policy researcher at ARI. It is also available in French.
The Africa Research Institute published on 14 February 2014 an article titled "Somali Remittances Update: Banking Up the Wrong Tree" by Edward Paice, director of ARI.
Monday, January 20, 2014
Somali Remittance Update
Africa Research Institute (ARI) published on 17 January 2014 a piece titled "Somali Money Matters -- An Update on the Remittances Saga" by Edward Paice, director of the ARI. This article provides an update on the announcement by Barclays last year that it intended to close the bank accounts of all but 19 of its 165 clients in the remittance transfer business.
Sunday, August 4, 2013
More on Somali Remittances
The New York Times ran an article on 3 August 2013 by Nicholas Kulish titled "Somalis Face a Snag in Lifelines from Abroad" that poses additional problems for money transfer companies such as Dahabshil. It cites the 12 July 2013 UN Monitoring Group Report on Somalia (page 58), which says that last year al-Shabaab operatives used Dahabshil to send money to Somalia to support the assassination of government officials.
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