Somalia exports to United Arab Emirates (UAE) many products., In 2019 alone Somalia exported $ 195M to United Arab Emirates getting a huge profits from its products. The main product Somalia exports to United Arab Emirates are bananas,skins,fish , charcoal and scrap metal making it to receive a huge profit from the export of the said items. United Arab Emirates also provided the fastest growing Market export for Crustaceans between 2018 to 2019 with( $1.57M).
Somalia also exports other key items to United Arab Emirates like Bovine ($ 15.8M), insects resins ($35.7M). The common destination for this items was UAE.
Turkey is another Somalia export partner, Somalia also exports some products to Turkey, In 2019 Somalia exported £6.7M to Turkey and the main export was oily seeds $4.7M. Somalia also exports some other items to Turkey like insect resins $1.74M and citrus $ 107k. Although both United Arab Emirates and Turkey are Somalia export partners it’s clear that United Arab Emirates is a bigger export partner compared to Turkey. In 2019 United Arab Emirates exported $ 174M to United Arab Emirates while it exported $6.7M to Turkey the same year
In insects resins Somalia exported $ 35.7M to United Arab Emirates while $ 1.74M was exported to Turkey.
Although in the last 24 years the exports of Somalia to Turkey have been increasing from $ 764K in 1995 to $ 6.7m in 2019 United Arab Emirates remains to be a bigger export partner compared to Turkey with 47% while Turkey stands to be 9.47%
It’s therefore with the statistics above United Arab Emirates is a biggest export partner with the highest percentage of 47%.
Although in some ways Turkish government is exploiting Somalia’s fragility and Somalis are now starting to realize that with her actions Turkey has evolved from been a friend to a foe.
Turkey signed multiple military packs with Somalia federal government in 2009 and 2010 and continued to sign new agreements.
The Turkish government invested $ 50M million to build the biggest military base with the goals of training 1000 members of the Somali national army .
The area sits on 400 hectares but did not pay for the land and there is no sight that the military pact contained the stipulation for lease payment for Somali people.
The Turkish embassy has since graduated five battalions of DNA troops 2500 in total but Somali troops are treated a heavy dose like singing the Turkish national anthem.
There were also some predatory practices and trade barriers introduced by Turkey .
In 2010 Somalia exported $ 1.36 million worth of goods to Turkey and imported $ 4.8 million which was some howly manageable trade deficit .
But when Albayrak took over the management of Mogadishu port however Turkish export to Somalia increased growing to $ 37.5 million in 2011 reaching $256 million In 2019 even as Somalia’s export to Turkey rose to just $6.7 million over the same period.
This has resulted one sided expansion of trade with Turkish traders nearly importing 50 times as much as Somalia traders exported to Turkey.
The Turkish trained Somali troops harma’ad and Gorgor have for a long time been used to harass and intimidate the opposition candidates .
In footage taken at the airport the troops were seen matching taking instructions from their commander.
There are also fears that the outgoing president of Somalia Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo could use the trained troops to extend his rule in power.
President Farmajo has been however warned against using the Turkish trained troops for his political purposes.
The Harma’ad and Gorgor have for along time been used to harass and intimidate the opposition candidates which is against the constitution and the law of the country.
