Text of report by Somaliland's Hargeysa radio on 12th May

Petrol prices in Hargeysa have risen sharply and the commodity can only be bought on the black

market. Our reporter who conducted spot checks in the town today found out that motorists had

to make the kind of hard bargain one sees at a livestock market to be able to buy the commodity.

He said a car he was travelling in was charged 7,500 Somali shillings for five litres of petrol.

A few days ago 20 litres of the commodity was selling at 18,000 shillings but today the same

amount was going for 30,000 shillings.