{"id":5621,"date":"2014-09-01T16:40:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/?p=5621"},"modified":"2016-03-10T13:47:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T13:47:52","slug":"foreign-policy-25-august-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/foreign-policy-25-august-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Policy, 25 August 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Franchise Opportunity: Western Union in Somaliland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2014\/08\/25\/somaliland_remittances_barclays_money_transfer\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5622\" src=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/25.08.2014-Michela-Wrong-Foreign-Policy.png\" alt=\"25.08.2014 Michela Wrong Foreign Policy\" width=\"1657\" height=\"901\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Policy contributor Michela Wrong links to our <a title=\"Summary of Somalia Briefing: Threats to food security &amp; remittances\" href=\"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/blog\/somalia-briefing-summary\/\" target=\"_blank\">Somalia Briefing summary<\/a> in her <a title=\"Franchise Opportunity: Western Union in Somaliland  \" href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2014\/08\/25\/somaliland_remittances_barclays_money_transfer\" target=\"_blank\">article on remittances and Somaliland<\/a>. The piece highlights how families and international NGOs alike rely on remittance flows and would be left incredibly vulnerable without them, as there are no functioning private banks in the Somali regions. The few banks that still offer services to money transfer operators (MTOs) are worried about narrow profit margins and reputational risks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Policy contributor Michela Wrong links to our Somalia Briefing summary in her article on remittances and Somaliland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[689,397,315,558,314],"class_list":["post-5621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ari-in-the-news","tag-money-transfer-operators","tag-mtos","tag-remittances","tag-somali-regions","tag-somalia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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