Somali para-military jeep on a city street in Mogadishu – militias need fuel (left); High oil and gas prices inspire Somalis to create their own public transportation (right)
tive central government inMogadishu has created a power vacuum where interest groups worldwide have sought political and economic favours from different Somali factions.
High hopes Most regional oil players are optimistic about huge oil deposits in the Horn of Africa, particularly in Somalia. ‘The ques- tionisnot ifanyhydrocarbondepositsexist,
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but where they are,’ saidMwendia Nyaga, Managing Director of Kenya’s National Oil Corporation. In an interview in Nairobi, Nyaga said it was only a matter of time before oil and gas reserves are discovered in Kenya, Somalia and possibly Ethiopia. Such hopes are also held by government
officials and politicians in the Republic of Somaliland and Puntland, who face con- stant pressure to provide stability amidst the chaos in the rest of the country. ‘We
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are eager for oil companies to strike oil in Puntland as this would give new hope to our people,’ said Puntland’s Minister for Oils and Minerals Hassan Osman Mohamud in Nairobi in December 2010. But so far, Somalia remains a speculative bet for oil exploration as, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), only 200bn cf of natural gas reserves are currently proven – located near Mogadishu.
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