ST’s guides and guards are the best. Our ground teams have been living and guiding on the horn for more than 34 years, before the civil wars and through many rounds of architecture and the rebuilding of the cities and broader nation. SST “grab Africa by the horn” – literally, and we are experts on security and business regulations, ecological surveys and research staging, Somali and Red Sea animals and sealife, holidays and history for families of diaspora and foreign visitors. Our crews have driven the US Embassy (State Department,) the Turkish, the French, the Swiss, the Japanese, the Chinese, the British, the AU, the UN (from UNOSOM to UNSOM and every iteration over the years,) Lockheed Martin, a few confidential entities of focus and discretion, and one of our lead ground dispatchers even advises the Prime Minister in a senior role in the central government, while another was a close quarters protection for the Japanese Prime Minister. Our MO is to stay plugged into the pulse of intel and pre-emptive proclivities, threat assessments, and current events. Thus we deliver travel and business enablements, project deployments, and investments into the nation’s peaceful future. Despite the sour and sensationalized (though sobering) media angles that continue in coverage of the horn, the situation is improving and opportunities are opening all through the nation, including infrastructure investments on the heels of gulf, American, African, and Asian capital.
SST’s ISIR, PB, SLT, ACS, Intel, Media Fixing, and Force Teams are adept at appointing serious and severe security measures and quick response, not just security “theatre.” The carpool (and maritime) contingent that drives (and sails) for SST has been driving urban and semiurban for more than 10 years in Somalia, arranges armored plating B6 and + vehicles and other options, and actually ran collectively over 10,000 times without incident. Managed by ex-Special Forces, Sec-Pbi2 type convoy and mobile security teams like this are linked in with Somali elders and red beards from multiple clans and subclans throughout the country, and therein became adept at scouting and staying well-regarded within the local community. They have successfully kept Al Shabab (in the south) and ISIS (in the north) out of the cars and convoys, and deterred threats for years carrying a big stick but smartly slipping around low profile to the maximum necessary. Everybody is serious about keeping it that way. In most cases we advise foreigners not to be in cars or convoys or contingents, and we can readily outsource most SOW’s to locals under our wing and call, to accomplish OKR milestones and maximally mitigate risk.
We will show you the best of the nation, from the best angles and for the best values. SST ISIR (SST’s “ISIR and Blue Consultants and Crews”) group is proud to be a part of the Blue SAR (Search & Rescue) Network, and the handlers for many foreign media and companies in Somalia. SST draws some of its best staff from the private security sectors and academia as well as tourism and hotels, aviation, shark and marine biology, science and logistics, and has also helped oversee disaster relief for the east coast Indian Ocean for UK and US Naval personnel, as well as B6 armor-plated vehicle dispatches and private elite security for valuable cargo, tech projects, and new products for the Somali market. 2 of our team have dealt with pirates before on the horn waters.
We also have a cargo and road and boat network that can go from Djibouti all the way to Mombasa to access the market within, and make cargo go where most foreign guests can’t. We can pilot distributions of new consumer goods and services and housing in Somalia, run market surveys and bring VVIPS in the capital and countryside in ground transit and rotary LZs. Some of our staff was from the Red Cross Field Office, and liaised for the African Union and UN troops with the Somali Gov, as well as with the Forces Command and all the local Somali leaders and groups, as the intermediary.
SST are the only travel teams in the world to be able to offer a lot of these areas in Somalia, and to offer particularly unique special knowledge bases and unique abilities in the tourism and intelligence industry, in-depth services for living and traveling in the horn short or long term. SST’s vehicle and asset pools provide the far-lowest risks to visitors and clients. Up in Somaliland and Djibouti, Somaliland tour guides are the direct guides for most of the clients of outside agencies and even most domestic Hargeisa agencies. The tame and friendly north of Hargeisa and Djibouti have ancient rock art and untold buried shipwrecks to explore, and affordable excellent tours, low price guaranteed, and direct with natives.
Well-rounded and using the best contingents, contractors, and connections to be had on the horn, SST delegates and dispatches the finest local Somali and international teams from ecotourism to terror-fighting to open up Somalia to the globe.
Most common requests:
SST is Somalia-based, primed to work together in further penetrating the market and succeeding in Somalia, or gathering intelligence and shoring up security for your personage and your mission.
What do we do with Static Security?- Provide tailored static security solutions, providing both highly trained static security officers, with the essential supervision and leadership.
Mobile Security?- Mobile security teams provide modified security solutions to facilitate ease of movement and successful business events in high threat environments.
Accommodation?– SST offers comfortable and ultra-secure accommodation suppliers in Somalia. Villas with spacious rooms and well-equipped office space to get on with your business in confidence, with fast backhaul and armed backup.
Tour Guide, Tour Activities and Fixers?- Security teams of course can curate exclusive tailor made tours in Somalia. Inclusive of route planning, logistics and security to give peace of mind as you discover the opportunities Somalia offers.
Airport Assistance?- ‘Meet & Greet’ package to aid various requirements for foreign companies, individuals entering Somalia for the first time. We can provide a custom package of assistance allowing you to focus on your business.
Cargo Services?- The logistics services division has extensive experience in the safe and timely delivery of goods to customers.
Market and Merchandise Introduction and Surveys?- Want to sell in Somalia? – DONE.
Water and Boat Services- SST prides itself with safe and secure maritime resources including boats with highly trained personnel providing armed maritime security. – Please see our marine page as well for this information.
Elite Security- Our security divisions consists of Somali nationals who are highly trained locally and mentored by high calibre expatriates. To help our clients to operate in complex and high-threat environments, we have additional upgrades possible on all of these services and personnel. Discuss please.
Overwatch, QRF, CP, Plants, Scouts, and more…
Hear from people with real experience in Somalia
“Helped me enormously over the years during my reporting trips to Mogadishu.”
– Andrew, from the BBC Africa Bureau
– Alexandra, from a US-based stratospheric UAV balloon project (confidential.)”
“key influential people who had left their comfort in US to return and rebuild his homeland Somalia. He was working under very difficult conditions and great risk to his personal life. I personally undertook a risky security assessment of the policing needs in Somalia with him, moving under threats of al shaabab terrorist group in newly recovered areas where they had just been kicked out by AMISOM forces.”
– Edward, from Mercy Corps
“provided us with a variety of services including monitoring and evaluation, research and analysis, project management, risk management and security services….go-to consultant for our humanitarian efforts within Somalia. HIGHLY recommended.”
– Ben, from a Security Firm
“The backbone of our study support”
– Neha, from an archeology dig
“Enabled the largest new revenue stream for us in 2018”
– Carl, from a FMCG company and private label food importer
(*Starting in June 2018, our policy is that for information or participants references in Mogadishu and Shark-related trips, we can give you phone contacts on a case by case basis only after you prove intent to book or buy a service, so as not to wear out our references via frivolous or fickle clients who are non-committal.)
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