The great name of somali pirates, perhaps many people understand, whether in reality, or in those film and television text works, naturally a group of bad people, all kinds of crimes continue to occur frequently, unscrupulous on the sea, all kinds of brutal acts are impressive.
Somaliland's reputation abroad
However, Somalia is famous, but it is very unfamiliar with Somaliland, in fact, some people may see the doorway, yes, Somaliland is also a country, but this land is very small, and it cannot be found on the map. If you have to point out where, in the north-eastern region of Somalia, with its own capital Hargeisa, it also has its own culture and territory.
The symbol here is the green, white, red and black five-star flag, and they also have their own currency, that is, the Somaliland shilling, and the structure of the country is available anyway. If outsiders come here, the locals will be very enthusiastic and do their best to tell that this is Somaliland, not the famous Somalia.
What kind of story will such a country with no visibility have? In fact, Somaliland was separated from Somalia and had its own state in 1991, yet no one in the world recognized them. The history of such a small country with a population of just over 130,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 3.5 million begins with the colonial era.
In the mid-19th century, European colonists came here and divided Somalia into two parts, one part belonging to britain and part to Italy, which happened to be where britain governed, which later became Somaliland. At that time, the two territories were not separated between you and me, and the people all recognized a Somalia, but since 1960, Somalia has successfully escaped from the circle and gained autonomy, but everything has changed.
Because of their own tribal structure, the three tribes were constrained by each other, and in 1969, the Darud tribe in the south came to power by means, and the other tribes felt unjust, so a great upheaval began. At the beginning, it was just all kinds of conventional means, cutting off water, electricity, food, and so on, and then weapons were used, in short, all kinds of constraints to create trouble.
In the movement, a unit from the Isaac tribe in the north took the opportunity to seek autonomy in the northern region, because the war caused the people to live, and the number of dead and wounded was tens of thousands, and there were 500,000 refugees fleeing to Ethiopia. Then the unrest in the Somali ministries ended briefly, followed by warlord melee.
Development and monetary economy in Somaliland
It was only in 1991 that Somalia really had structure, but chaos continued, with war and refugees everywhere. However, Somaliland is different, but it provides a relatively peaceful and stable area for the people in the north. Somalia is still the same, but it may be much better than before, but Somaliland is very conspicuous, with a unique stability, that is, economic backwardness and poor living standards.
Somaliland is one of the most depressed in the world, but it has a unique landscape, in the streets and alleys, full of people selling things, selling a large bundle of banknotes, what is going on? People who don't know think they're rich, and everyone has endless bills, but it's actually a poor place.
They have bundles of banknotes because money in Somaliland cannot be used as money at all, or even less than a piece of waste paper, and its value is pitifully small. All this is related to the currency of Somaliland, which in 1994 had just come out of the circle and had the Somaliland Shilling, which was also to distinguish it from the Somali Order.
At this time, because Somaliland is not recognized, so the currency can not be circulated, even in the Somali region, for a long time, the somaliland people do not feel at ease with these paper money, so they exchange it for other circulating currencies. Later, due to the economic crisis of the currency, it led to the unrestrained printing of the local area, resulting in the depreciation of Somaliland.
When it is the least valuable, it is almost a bundle of consumption, and a truck of paper money is needed for a meal. Under such absurd influence, Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, slowly appeared a currency market, which is also the only unique landscape in the world.
In general, countries use banks to exchange currency, which is not only safe and secure, but also very convenient and effective. But here in Hargeisa, these procedures are not available, directly set up a bundle of stalls on the spot to sell, may not be as good as selling vegetables, these paper money placed here no one stole, what is the matter?
Somaliland is backward and advanced
Mainly because somali orders are worthless, there is no temptation to drive people's desires, and there is a local people who are simple and almost will not steal and steal, so selling money like this kind of vegetables is a daily phenomenon in Somaliland. Another reason is that Somaliland's backwardness makes it impossible to have a proper bank here, and other equipment is not to be thought of.
Because of these embarrassing situations, it is not convenient for locals to go out to buy things, and they have to pay a lot of paper money in order to buy a bottle of water to drink, is this not torturing themselves? However, in 2009, somaliland had private companies ready to create a unique system for the convenience of the local population.
At the beginning, it is full of enthusiasm, unlike other mobile banking systems, people do not need to be intelligent, only need mobile phone accounts, even if it is an elderly machine can be realized, but on the basis, or have to cooperate with mobile phone operators. Once such a system comes out, it can bind the mobile phone number and the bank account, and use the mobile phone to send and receive text messages to achieve the transfer, which is definitely a real-time payment to the account.
No matter which party the user is, it can reach this cooperative relationship, through the receipt of sms real-time arrival, basically the mobile phone number is a bank account, the basic equipment and communication conditions are satisfied, you can exchange each other. Some people may ask, since mobile phones can be so convenient, smart phones are estimated to be very popular here, in fact, Somaliland is very backward, not everyone has a smart phone, most of them are ordinary mobile phones.
In this case, the system was born, which was perfectly adapted to the people of Somaliland, and there was also advanced mobile payment here, which was popularized as early as 2010. At that time, even some mobile payment methods were unfamiliar to us, but in Somaliland, it was popularized, and the backward socio-economic structure and backward infrastructure were all backward in Somaliland.
It's just that the popularity is an advanced payment method, and it should be known that in many places, cash payment is still used, and mobile payment is still not popular. However, the backwardness of Somaran, which is also some of the views of the outside world, for the locals, their water has to be carried, to a long distance with an ox cart to pull water, to buy vegetables but directly mobile phone payment.
Such a strange scene is estimated to be only In Somaliland, and it is certainly not false to say that the degree of strangeness here is true. On the one hand, backwardness and poverty, the people sell money for life, do not regard money as money, on the other hand, advanced and convenient technology, think that they exist but are not recognized by the world, which is also the most embarrassing place.