Flood of Foreign Workers Leave Young Somalis Out of Work

Romans Onyango is the site engineer at one of Mogadishu’s luxury apartment buildings under construction. While there are no official numbers, the Kenyan national is one of the many foreign workers attracted to the Somali capital by lucrative contracts. “There are so many Kenyans coming here — people from all over Africa: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, everywhere," he says. In the past two years, African Union troops have pushed out warlords and al-Shabab militants,...

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