Resumen de Examining Somalia's untapped industrial mineral potential
Industrial Minerals
Minjir said Somalia must first create enabling laws and form a taskforce to review all past contracts and deals signed before the civil wars: "This will help eliminate unnecessary conflicts as well as aligning agreements to federalism as most of the deals were signed when Somalia had a centralised governance system. Engineer Abdulkadir Abiikar Hussein, a geologist and technical director general at Somalia's Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources said data compiled by Somali National University and the Russian government before the civil war shows that there is untapped and unexploited deposits of sepiolite, south of El Bur, in the semi-autonomous state of Galmudug, in central Somaliland, which could be exported through Hobyo port, 150 kilometres from El Bur. The land has barely settled: A former pro-government militia member prepares to conduct a mock mine-sweep in November 2012, in the central Somali town of Belet Weyne in the Hiraan region of Somalia, approx. 300km north west of the capital Mogadishu, during a technical and tactical training course run by the Djiboutian contingent of the African Union Mission resources. [...]they have to face and get over legislative hurdles before even getting into the country," she explained. [...]should all these obstacles be overcome, and Somalia develops a functioning industrial minerals sector, could the country fall victim to the so-called 'resource curse' and see its riches fuel corruption and diverted away from investment and spreading wealth?
