Hundreds of Kenyans working as expatriates in Somaliland

Hundreds of Kenyans working as expatriates in Somaliland

Soft drinks maker Coca Cola has licensed a company that operates in Somaliland to produce the beverages and in the process opening up opportunities for Kenyans. Somaliland Beverages Company, a locally-owned firm operating under the Laas Group is the biggest foreign...
Somaliland: Bringing Hope to a Dry Land

Somaliland: Bringing Hope to a Dry Land

Coca-Cola Provided Clean Water for 50,000 Internally Displaced People in Somaliland Somaliland is a self-declared sovereign state and is internationally recognized as an autonomous region of Somalia, a country that has been in a civil war since 1991. Just six...
Coca Cola opens bottling plant in Somaliland

Coca Cola opens bottling plant in Somaliland

HARGEISA, May 23 (Reuters) – Coca-Cola Co. has opened a $15 million bottling plant in Somalia’s breakaway enclave of Somaliland, part of a plan to win more African consumers by investing $12 billion in the continent by 2020, the company said on Wednesday. The...
Somaliland bottles its hopes in Coca-Cola plant

Somaliland bottles its hopes in Coca-Cola plant

It is Africa’s, if not the world’s, most isolated Coca-Cola bottling plant, a large shiny white-and-red hangar-like building in the middle of nowhere, with camels and black-headed sheep as neighbours. Inaugurated in May by Somaliland’s president,...