Green Valley Dairy Farm Darsalaam Somaliland

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BBC Africa Editor Mary Harper describes how she came to report on a remarkable green field dairy farm in the middle of the desert in a rejuvenated Somaliland.

 

I didn’t believe a word Abdullah Farah was saying when he first told me about his farm.

 

I had met him by chance in the Man-Soor Hotel while reporting for Assignment in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland – a dry, arid territory that broke away from Somalia 20 years ago and classed by the BBC as a ‘hostile environment’.

 

Like so many Somalilanders, Abdullah had fled the territory during a civil war in the 1980s. He ended up as a refugee in Canada, where, from nothing, he built up a lucrative business.

 

But he had returned to his homeland to set up what he told me was the “Green Valley Dairy Farm”.

 

Desert oasis

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/worldagenda/2011/03/110308_worldagenda_somaliland_dairy.shtml

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