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‘It’s like we went bankrupt overnight’: poorest Somalis suffer as piles of worthless shillings mount up
Banknotes are now so tattered that even buses refuse to accept them, as a dollarised economy and mobile phone payments push up the cost of essentialsAs US troops withdrew from Somalia in the spring of 1994, a teenaged Muse Omar Jama began working as an…