Aidan Hartley
Aidan Hartley (born 1965) is a Kenya-born writer and entrepreneur.
Hartley was born in Nairobi in 1965. He attended Sherborne School, in Dorset, England. He studied English at Balliol College, Oxford University and went on to the School of Oriental and African Studies, (SOAS) to study African politics and history.
As a foreign correspondent for the Reuters news agency, Hartley covered Africa in the 1990s - wars in Somalia, famine in Ethiopia and genocide in Rwanda. He is the author of The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands, which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He made nearly thirty documentaries for the Channel 4 Television award-winning current affairs series Unreported World and "Dispatches". In 2013 he retired from mainstream journalism to focus on private business affairs and book writing.
He guest writes for the "Wild Life" column of The Spectator.[1]
Hartley serves as an adviser in the U.K.-based, oil-exploration company Soma Oil and Gas Holdings Ltd., which is chaired by Baron Howard and active in Somalia, and in which Hartley is a minority shareholder. [2][3] The company is currently under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office for "payments to key officials in the Somali oil ministry."[3][4][5][6]
Bibliography
- (2003) The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War, Harper Collins, ISBN 0-00-257059-9
References
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- ↑ Soma Oil & Gas list of shareholders (Accessed 20/2/2016)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Spectating in Somalia", Private Eye, No. 1410, 22 January - 4 February 2016
- ↑ "Serious Fraud Office investigating oil firm Soma" by Michael Holden and Drazen Jorgic, Reuters, 1 August 2015
- ↑ "Soma Oil & Gas lobbies UK for help in Somalia despite Serious Fraud Office inquiry" by Jim Armitage, The Independent, 15 October 2015
- ↑ "Soma Oil Lobbies U.K. to Oppose Proposed Somalia Moratorium" by Ilya Gridneff, Bloomberg, 1 October 2015
External links
- Soma Oil & Gas official website
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