This elderly lady is the matriarch in a tight knit family of 10, which spans four generations, all of whom reside in three small huts in this harsh desert environment.
On 1 April 2022, Hargeisa’s Waheen Market was destroyed in an electrical fire, razing an entire city block and costing 12,000 Somalilanders their livelihoods.
Abdi lost his business in the fire that destroyed Somaliand’s Waheen Market in 2022.
These two men made their livelihoods by selling trinkets from wheelbarrows. They lost everything in the fire that destroyed the Waheen Market in 2022.
One of the surviving buildings of the Waheen Market Fire disaster was burned out, its contents blackened.
After the fire destroyed their businesses, many traders shifed onto nearby streets to sell wares. The result is a clogged city center.