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2015-01-17 Africa Horn

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Posted by Steve White 2015-01-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 "The historic challenges that have limited business opportunities in Somalia"

Now there's a phrase dripping with irony and unintentional humor.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-01-17 07:21|| 2015-01-17 07:21|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm thinking "no..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2015-01-17 08:38|| 2015-01-17 08:38|| Front Page Top

"The historic challenges that have limited business opportunities in Somalia"

Much progress has been made since the initial writings at Laas Gaal some 10,000 years ago. The knowledge gap is indeed narrowing.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-17 10:00|| 2015-01-17 10:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Luring in tankers rather than plying the Indian Ocean to pirate them?

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-01-17 12:06|| 2015-01-17 12:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Let's tell the Methodists so they stop importing them.

Posted by regular joe 2015-01-17 12:31|| 2015-01-17 12:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Coming this summer to Discovery Channel: Oil Rig Hostages.

Posted by Charles 2015-01-17 13:32|| 2015-01-17 13:32|| Front Page Top

#7 I dunno. The British East India Company has more than a little experience pacifying the natives and getting the goods to market.

On the other hand, falling oil prices do not bode well for extraction in an environment where every Tom, Dick and Aidid is trying to blow up or ransom your infrastructure and personnel.

Posted by SteveS 2015-01-17 14:43|| 2015-01-17 14:43|| Front Page Top

#8 You didn't build that Somalia Style.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-01-17 15:58|| 2015-01-17 15:58|| Front Page Top

#9 There is nothing wrong with planning. Sure, if Somalia can do it, they deserve that opportunity. They may want to wait for the level break even price before dropping money into it.

bone up on security in the meantime.

Posted by newc 2015-01-17 19:04|| 2015-01-17 19:04|| Front Page Top

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