Somalia Asks Barclays to Review Closing Money-Transfer Account

Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon Saaid asked Barclays Plc to reconsider its decision to close the accounts of the nation’s money-transfer services.

“It will directly affect millions of entirely innocent Somalis for whom remittances from overseas are absolutely vital,” Shirdon wrote in the letter to Barclays Chief Executive Officer Antony Jenkins today. “This is how they feed their families, clothe their children and treat their illnesses.”