Somaliland. Waqohi Galbed province. Hargeisa town center. A black muslim man, a money changer, is carrying Somaliland bank notes in the wheelbarrow. After a long war, on May 18, 1991, the major Somaliland clan, namely Isaqs, declared independence from the Somalia. Somaliland is an unrecognized de facto sovereign state located in the Horn of Africa. Hargeisa is the capital of Somaliland. © 2006 Didier Ruef