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  Written by: Ameen Guled   Somali’s natural oil and gas exploration begun in 1950’s and halted after the central government collapsed in 1991 and all the agreements related to oil explorations has been put in a state of force majeure, since the transitional government, the Somali government was trying to reconstitute the petroleum agreements. Somalia has a ministry of petroleum and oil but Somali people doubt the quality of the ministry’s staff because this ministry is science based body which needs to have highly trained experts on petrol and gases and the ministry should also have distinct lawyers, Abdulkadir Abiikar Hussein who is a formal chief of technical staff of the ministry said they don’t have well trained and professional staff whom we can trust with the foundation of Somali petroleum exploration agreements, He mentioned they once had a meeting with USA based company called Coastline Exploration the company sent12 members delegate and they were only 2 members...

The revolution  against the terrorist group of al-Shabaab is expanding rapidly across the country with the support of  the Somali national army and local militants who took their guns against the radical terrorist group after al-Shabaab took cruel and remorseless attacks on innocent people including children. The newly elected Somali president called for national war against al-Shabaab immediately after he was elected but al-Shabaab responded this call with a huge attack in which they seized a very prominent hotel called Hayat hotel in the capital city of Mogadishu on august 22, they were fighting inside the hotel for 35 hours despite the efforts of the different sectors of the Somali security forces to detach the terrorist from the hotel, more than 40 civilians lost their lives during this attack, Al-Shabaab claimed the responsibility of hotel Hayat attack in Mogadishu and they said it is the response of the foolishness and unplanned battle cry of president Hassan sheik...