I have worked in Somalia once (for a few months) and got a position way above my skill level at the time.
I also kept getting invited to dinners at the homes of elite people (even one minister, LOL), just for being reer diaspora and working in Somalia.
Somalia's lack of human resources is shocking. Forget about technocrats ( they are extremly hard to find them) perhaps in their place we've bunch of useless elite who percieve themselves as 'Think tank' operating from Nairobi & often with research institutes that are loud on twitter & spy for cadaan govt to get funding. The lowest entry job like hairdresser, cleaning & fumigation, cooks, office admin, plumber, electrician and lot more are imported from Kenya & Uganda. Turkey hacked the secret that Somalis love and adore anything foreign, now they are coming in large numbers unregulated, unvetted, unqualified. In the healthcare sector, i've seen many cases whereby nursing student who just started or no where close to finishing their medical training are posing as Doctors and paid hefty salary that they have decided not to even go back to finish school. Mind you they utterly & outright discriminate the local nurses who are qualified and well trained. Who are Somalis, they love and vow to pay ridiculous consultation fees only to see a Turkey "Doctor". Turks they have even private clinics where they carry out high risk surgery and other operations that a qualified doctor would be hesitant to do. No govt is here to regulate and oversee what they are doing. The govt officials are blinded with Turkey Visa, small money & possibility to relocate his family Turkey. Come to NGO's & private sector eg. Hotels, schools & restaurants they NEVER hire any local who is more than capable of doing better job than a expertriate who they have to worry about their security on top of hefty salary, medical coverage & other allowances as required in labour laws of their respective countries. Onto diaspora, they have a family member or their dad in govt or with connection. They eat life with big spoon in Mogadishu. From living in luxuriuos, newest apartment that goes for $1,400 per month. Chauffeured around in armoured car with bodyguard to dining in lurxurious, high end hotels (Decale) and rolling with big boys ( Ministers, foreigners at Halane, & "International work trips"). The diasporas i've met or often worked with are prideful, no where close to qualified & assume having accent or carrying foreign passport makes them superior. In summary Somalia is like a lawless jungle, where if u have no Godfather to paveway for u, then u have to appease those with connection with ur body (lots of girls seeking employment often deal with this dilemma. Before u come at me google how Turkey, Amison have done this to them) or money if u are male.
