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Even if Somaliland is not an official country, they have their own currency: Somaliland shilling. 1 us dollar = 6000 shillings. The biggest note is 500 shillings. So, do not forget your bags when you make change!
\nAs security is really good in Somaliland, the money changer are in the street, with hills of notes in front of them!
\nFormerly a British colony, Somaliland briefly reached its independence in 1960. It is one of the three Territories, with Puntland and former Italian Somalia that compose the current State of Somalia.
\nSomaliland proclaimed its independence in 1991, adopting its own currency, a fully independent government, working institutions and police. The authorities organized a referendum in 2001, advocating once again for full independence. However, to date, it is not internationally recognized.
\nEthiopian Prime minister Meles Zenawi is the only one to speak about a Somalilander president, recognizing implicitly the existence of an independent State. Indeed the economy of neighboring Ethiopia dramatically depends on Somaliland stability, since the landlocked country\u2019s main trade route passes through the Somalilander port of Berbera\u2026 And vice-versa, the economy of Somaliland largely depends on the taxes and duties it charges Ethiopia. Besides that, the principal economic activity of Somaliland is livestock exportation to the Arabian Peninsula. Most people are Sunni Muslims and speak Arabic, as well as some Somali dialect and many of them, English.Lastely, the East African demography being based on clan alliances, it is no surprise that the frontiers drawn by the colonists don\u2019t match the ethnic divisions of territory, leading to open clashes. More broadly, this problem is recurrent across the African continent.<\/p>\n
\u00a9 Eric Lafforgue Posted<\/a> by Eric Lafforgue <\/a> on 2011-12-07 16:55:33 <\/p>\n\n Tagged: , 2964 , Somaliland , Somalia , Africa , Horn Of Africa , Square , Interior, Indoors , Hargeisa, Hargaysa, Hargeysa , Money , Wad , Bank Note, Money, Paper Money, Bill , Color , Photograph, Photo , Hargeisa , afrique , afrika , \u0635\u0648\u0645\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0627\u0646\u062f\u200e , somalie , \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0648\u0645\u0627\u0644 , Soomaaliland , British Somaliland , somali , \u0421\u043e\u043c\u0430\u043b\u0438 , \u30bd\u30de\u30ea\u30a2 , Szom\u00e1lia , \u03a3\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03bb\u03af\u03b1 , Somali\u00eb <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Even if Somaliland is not an official country, they have their own currency: Somaliland shilling. 1 us dollar = 6000 shillings. The biggest note is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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