Tanning industry a priority for Horn of Africa projects
04/04/2013
Somaliland is internationally recognised as an autonomous region of Somalia, but the government there has declared itself to be a sovereign state in its own right.
Founded in 2011, the SDC has said it believes the UK government will help its work in 2013 when, with the presidency of the G8 countries, it will include the rebuilding of Somalia following years of civil war as a high priority.
Jeremy Carver, president of the UK branch of the International Law Association, is the director and a co-founder of the SDC. He said in a statement at the start of April that the organisation’s work would open up investment and trade opportunities in the whole Horn of Africa region. He said: “The SDC hopes to play a vital role in encouraging quality inward investment by the international community.”
Along with leather and leathergoods production, agricultural and livestock development, the SDC is addressing the need to develop transport links in the region, especially the Berbera transit corridor, giving access to the deep-sea port at Berbera to companies in neighbouring, land-locked Ethiopia. Other areas of interest include fibre optic-based communications and international banking.
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