nce a vibrant and noisy place, the market at Waheen was Somaliland’s largest. It had about 2,000 shops and stalls, selling fresh fruit and meat alongside tailors’ and tech support stores. Whenthrough the city of Hargeisa earlier this month, at least 28 people were injured and hundreds of businesses were destroyed.
Amina Ali, a meat seller at Waheen, says that although the flames have gone out, the damage continues: “Today, our situation is at its worst. Waheen is at the heart of everything in Hargeisa and now it’s all gone to waste. Nobody is coming to help us. We don’t have anyone, we only have God.” Mohamed has seven people financially dependent on her, including her widowed mother, and says she is now trying to sell fruit to make ends meet. People haven’t been able to return to the market to search for any goods that survived the flames.Photograph: Hamza Sulub/The Guardian
Yurub Omar has also moved under the bridge. She used to sell bananas and now sells salt and ground coffee. Nimco Husein Abdi owned a business and sold bedding, clothes and more. Her customers paid in instalments. “All my things are gone. I still haven’t paid my rent but if me and my children are alive, we have to thank God. I’m just sat at home most of the time because there is nothing for me to sell. But today, I came out to see if I could find some food for my children from my friends.
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