Buy a blender online in Mogadishu? E-commerce comes to Somalia

A customer receives items that he bought via the Somali Online Marker (Soomar) in Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 17, 2018. PHOTO | REUTERS

Somalia might not seem a good bet for e-commerce. It’s one of the world’s poorest countries and has been at war for a quarter century.

There’s no functioning postal service and less than 2 percent of the population is connected to the internet.