The VAT exemption policies for healthcare, medicine supply, health insurance, educational fees, utilities (electricity and water), local production, and food staples in Sub-Saharan African countries are examined: (more…)
Somalia Financial Governance Report 2023
This is truly a special edition of the annual Financial Governance Report as we pass the tenth year of the Financial Governance Committee (FGC). Since 2013, the Federal Government of Somalia has been proactively engaged in a transformational journey to improve financial governance and achieve macroeconomic (more…)
Somalia has joined the EAC regional bloc. What happens next?
Observers say Somalia’s accession to the bloc comes with multiple opportunities but also multiple challenges. (more…)
Somalia points the way to first cashless society
The launch of a national payments system has allowed Somalia to centralise its digital payments. The country is on the cusp of a digital revolution, with opportunity ripe for the picking. (more…)
Meru miraa traders count losses as Somalia digs in
The Nyamita chairman said the hostility has heightened despite foreign affairs officials from Kenya and Somalia entering an agreement last week. (more…)
Even chief executives will be replaced by robots, Jack Ma predicts
THIRTY years into the future, nobody’s job will be safe from the robots — not even chief executives.That’s according to Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, who warned in a Monday speech that “the world will see much more pain than happiness” as automation and the internet disrupt traditional jobs worldwide, the...