Mark Bradbury

Mark Bradbury is Executive Director of Rift Valley Institute (RVI) and a social analyst with over 20 years’ experience in international development and humanitarian aid. He has worked in and written about Somalia, Somaliland, Sudan, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Uganda, and Kosovo as a development worker and researcher. He is author of Becoming Somaliland (Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 2008).

COVID-19 has transformed Somaliland’s remittance lifeline

Remittances were projected to crash at the start of the pandemic, but in Somaliland COVID-19 created an opportunity for digital disruption instead

By Mark Bradbury, Mohamed Aden Hassan, Ahmed M. Musa and Nauja Kleist

/ 19 Apr 2021

COVID-19 has transformed Somaliland’s remittance lifeline

Can the London Conference on Somalia get it right this time?

Deals struck in foreign capitals over power-sharing and constitutional arrangements do nothing to address the deep issues that perpetuate conflict. When existing institutions are irrelevant or inimical to many ordinary people, as they are today in much of Somalia, new institutions need to tap into

By Mark Bradbury

/ 22 Feb 2012