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Barclays closure of remittance accounts to cut lifeline for Somali refugees

By MARK KAPCHANGA

Having a simple meal in Somalia is a luxury. Poverty has inevitably increased since the early 1990s with 53 per cent of the population living on less than $1 (Sh85) a day.

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