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The Central Bank of Somali has issued the country’s first mobile money service license essentially, bringing the widely unregulated mobile money service in Somalia under control.
The license was awarded to the country’s largest telecommunications provider, Hormuud Telecom, which runs the Electronic Voucher Card (EVCPlus) free mobile money service.
EVCPlus has a subscriber base of over 3.6 million and is currently used by about 3 million.
Mobile money services have been in operation in Somalia for about 10 years now and make up the bulk of transactions for buying, selling, and transfers compared to Somali bank notes.
Speaking about this milestone, the Governor of the Central Bank of Somalia, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, said:
Clare Pollard was born in Bolton in 1978 and lives in London. Her first collection of poetry,
The Heavy-Petting Zoo was written whilst she was still at school, and received an Eric Gregory Award. It was followed by
Bedtime and
Look, Clare! Look!, which was made a set text on the WJEC A-level syllabus. Her fourth collection
Changeling is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Clare has co-translated
Poems by Caasha Lul Mohamud Yusuf, and her new version of
Ovid’s Heroines, published by Bloodaxe, is currently touring as a one-woman show with Jaybird Live Literature. She blogs regularly about life as a poet at www.clarepollard.com. She is a judge for The Poetry Society’s Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize 2015.