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Home > Somalia's diaspora offers financial lifeline

Contributor [1]
Thursday, December 16, 2004 - 02:00
Categories: 
News from the diaspora [2]
Issue Number: 
187 [3]
Article-Summary: 

With up to a quarter of all Somalis now living abroad and many more having fled their homes within the country, a new Somali saying goes: "We are now a nation of immigrants who depend on other immigrants." Some estimates say that some 23% of Somalia's income has been sent there by relatives now living abroad.

Category: 
Pan-Africanism [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/diaspora/26176 [5]
Country: 
Somalia [6]

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