Absence of government freed Somali traders to outprice regional competitors

Evidence

As the ‘president’ of Mogadishu’s commerce committee put it to the adventurous young French journalist Jerome Tubiana in February 2002, ‘We only pay the faction controlling the port of entry of our goods and then transport them by road as far as Kenya, in Ethiopia, and to Djibouti. We pass through the frontiers without too much difficulty because the frontier zones are occupied by Somalis. So our clothes or our televisions are cheaper than those of Kenyan and Ugandan traders.’ — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 686 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Somali statelessness let traders move goods more cheaply than regulated neighbors. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 686

Related

• Somali statelessness let traders move goods more cheaply than regulated neighbors. (similarity 0.94)

Broader Connections

• Somali statelessness let traders move goods more cheaply than regulated neighbors. #corroborates (0.95) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 686