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3.5 Poverty in Somaliland

Somaliland is also severely affected by sky-high prices, and the general deep and widespread poverty and misery prevailing in Somalia as a whole, as indicated by some UN reports concerning Burao, Sanaag, Awdal, Golis, Guban and related Hawd areas, as can be seen above. The following high prices of some basic food items in Hargeisa by Wargeyska Haatuf (17/3/2009) are also indicative of that although I have no detailed and specific information about the price hyperinflation of all the basic food items and the extent of the devaluation of the Somaliland shilling and which are said to exist there:-

 

1.       Price of 50 kg. Of Sugar                  -       $27

2.       Price of 50 kg. Of Rice                    -        $38 -51

3.       Price of Wheat flour 50kgs              -       $25.50 

4.       Price of 10 liters of Cooking Oil      -       $9.50

 

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