Once 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. When fire raged through the city of Hargeisa earlier this month, at least 28 people were injured and hundreds of businesses were destroyed.
It was “a massive calamity” for the city’s economic centre, says Hargeisa’s mayor, Abdikarim Ahmed Mooge.
