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Telecoms firm draws militia’s ire in Somalia

 By OSCAR OBONYO

A money transfer venture by Somalia’s leading telecommunication company [Hormuud], modelled alongside Safaricom’s M-Pesa system, has come under threat of closure by the Al Shabaab terror gang.

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