Mobile phone banking for Somalia

Sheiks reject Somalian sea bandits

Somali Government Condemns Insurgent Moves to Annex Parts of Kenya

Somali vigilantes capture pirates

Some pix of Mogadishu

Militias fighting Al-Shabaab have reportedly had a setback, but are "increasingly challenging Al Shabaab's rule in the southern and central regions of Somalia."

Here's an article about factors working to break up the Russian state.

I found an article on nazret.com that ends with this somewhat interesting factoid:

Bloomberg reports, Ethiopian Telecommunications’s monopoly enables it to charge $35 for a mobile-phone SIM card, which is required to obtain a phone number. In neighboring Somalia and Kenya, which have private mobile services, cards cost less than $5.

But the most interesting thing on the page was this comment:

yeah liberation on market and ethiopia doesn't go together, the government should accept overseas and diaspora ethiopians to come to the country and establish business there.

Follow the example of Somalis in the diaspora, they all came back to Somalia, and established great business there, specially in the telecommunication sector(there are more than 10 telecom companies in somalia), and in the area of aviation(Somali airline companies number more than 8 now), and those diaspora Somalis did well ine stablishing business in the hotel sectors and real estate.


Can Ethiopian nationals living in the diaspora follow the example of their brothers in Somalia, yes they can follow but ONLY if ETHIOPIA GOVERNMENT allows free market and trade and liberate the telecoms and other sectors to open for competetion.


I cannot use my 3G iphone in Ethiopia, but I can in Somalia, simply because 3G service doesn't exist in Ethiopia since telecome is fiercely controlloed by the government.


The governemnt should know, it is for the good, for the economy, for the people, and the government would benefit in terms of tax revenues generated by the competeting companies.