oneofcold@yahoo.com wrote:
> Is there a specific reason you have for wanting to go there? Could you
> find what you were looking for in a safer part of Africa?
I am an economist interested in studying the effects on the economy of
an absence of centralized government. According to the Wikipedia entry
on Somalia's economy
"Some areas in Somalia are actually doing better economically than
before the war when the socialist government of Siad Barre had
suppressed free enterprise and neglected large parts of the country.
Northern Somalia especially has rebounded economically. The lack of a
government made a genuine capitalist economy, with no taxes and no
other government red tape that free market economists claim stifles
economic growth in neighboring countries. The main problem affecting
economic growth however, is the lack of stability in the South. An
example of this is that in Mogadishu, some businessmen would prefer to
pay taxes to a government to maintain security rather than to
warlords."
I would like to see with my eyes the extent to which this is true.
> I don't think they have commercial flights to Somalia.
They do. Daallo Airlines has regular flights to Haargeisa (Somaliland)
and Mogadishu from Nairobi and other locations. From the website
www.opodo.co.uk it is possible to buy round trip tickets from London to
Mogadishu, flying Kenya Airlines to Nairobi and then Daallo Airlines.
The only problem is, what will happen once I get to Mogadishu
International Airport?
>
> "What would be the price difference? Also, what kind of visa does one
> need in order to visit Somalia?"
>
> Contact the Somali embassy in London.
There is none.
> Here's a web page from someone who actually went there:
>
> http://travel.seanrorison.com/mog-1.html
Thanks, I will write to him.
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