By Abdullahi Salad - Reporter
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Mogadishu, 3 November 2026 – Somalia's Tabaarak ICT Solutions has won the Service of the Year award at the East African Community (EAC) Regional Quality Awards 2026, held in Kigali, Rwanda.
Tabaarak ICT, which represented Somalia in the competition, came out ahead of other companies from across EAC member states.
The company had earlier won the 2026 National Quality Award, which qualified it to represent Somalia in the Kigali competition. The national award was presented at a ceremony called “Quality Night”, organised by the Somali Bureau of Standards on 8 October. The ceremony honoured government institutions and private companies that demonstrated high standards of quality this year.
The EAC Regional Quality Awards are designed to promote a culture of quality across the region by encouraging companies to adopt quality standards and management practices. Companies are assessed against the quality management principles of the international ISO 9001 standard, which include customer focus, leadership, engagement of people and continuous improvement.
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The company said the win reflects its continued efforts in quality, innovation, transparency and the development of technology services. It added that the achievement demonstrates the ability of Somali companies to compete on regional platforms.
Since 2007, the company, headquartered in Mogadishu, has provided technology services used by government institutions and private companies.
One of the company’s best-known projects is SUMER (Solution for Unified Management of Electronic Revenue). It is a handheld device designed for tax collection that removes the individual official’s power to decide how much is paid, by basing tax on pre-set rates that the system calculates automatically.
Tabaarak ICT’s win comes as other Somali companies also received awards in Kigali, including First Somali Takaful Insurance, which won Company of the Year for small and medium-sized enterprises.