Somalia launches its first offshore round but will obstacles be overcome?

Somalia's first efforts to hold a formal licensing exercise will offer far fewer blocks than originally envisaged, even as the Mogadishu regime sinks into chaos while elections loom

Offshore Somalia: Restive clan politics and institutional inexperience may derail plans to licence oil blocks
Offshore Somalia: Restive clan politics and institutional inexperience may derail plans to licence oil blocksPhoto: AFP/SCANPIX
Published 4 August 2020, 11:15Updated 4 August 2020, 11:15