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· Somaliland
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Jump to full article: All-Africa.com, 2001-09-11
Intro: Police in the self-declared independent state of Somaliland, northwestern Somalia, have seized a consignment of cigarettes, the pro-Somaliland administration newspaper 'Mandeeq' reported on 8 September. The consignment, consisting of 132 crates of Benson and Hedges cigarettes reportedly originated from the port city of Bosaso in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, northeastern Somalia, a local source told IRIN on Tuesday. There were various versions of who owned the consignment, but no one had so far claimed ownership, the source said. 'Mandeeq', however, noted that the cigarettes were the same brand as those that a Djibouti businessman used to bring into the country. These were previously supplied to Somaliland by a Djibouti businessman, Abdulrahman Bore.
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