- Title: [SW News] (Sources)
Ban On Chilled Meat Officially Lifted , More Fake Currency Hits Mogadishu
- Posted by/on:[AAJ[11 April 2001]
Ban On Chilled Meat Officially Lifted
Story Filed: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 6:20 AM EST
Apr 10, 2001 (UN Integrated Regional Information Network/All Africa Global Media via
COMTEX)-- The ban on Somali chilled meat exports to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has
been officially lifted. Humanitarian sources confirmed that the Technical Committee of the
General Secretariat of UAE Municipalities had officially lifted the ban, which was imposed
on all livestock products after an outbreak of Rift Valley fever in Saudi Arabia and Yemen
last September.
Since the ban was lifted last week, about 32 tonne s of chilled meat had been exported
from Galkayo in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, northeastern Somalia, and from abattoirs in Mogadishu, humanitarian sources
said.
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Health and Medicine.
More Fake
Currency Hits Mogadishu
Story Filed: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 6:20 AM EST
Apr 10, 2001 (UN Integrated Regional Information Network/All Africa Global Media via
COMTEX)-- Two plane-loads of new Somali shillings arrived in the capital, Mogadishu, on
Saturday, local sources and news agencies said. Local sources told IRIN that the new
currency was valued at approximately US $4 million, or Somali shillings 60 billion. The
arrival of the currency meant that traders at the currency market in Mogadishu were
"changing the rates every hour", said a local economist. Although the currency
has not yet appeared, the main market, Bakaara, was said to be very quiet on Monday as a
result.
On Sunday, there were demonstrations against the Transitional National Government (TNG)
for failing to stop the continued importation of fake currency. Demonstrators accused the
TNG of being weak, and failing to live up to promises to stop currency arriving from
abroad. Local sources said the money had been brought in through Isaley airstrip, north
Mogadishu, by two prominent businessmen.
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KEYWORD: Somalia
Economy, Business and Finance
Currencies
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