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d Exports: total value: $130 million (1994 est.) commodities: bananas, live animals, fish, hides (1997) partners: Saudi Arabia 57%, Yemen 14%, Italy 13%, UAE 10%, US (bananas) (1995 est.) Imports: total value: $269 million (1994 est.) commodities: manufactures, petroleum products, foodstuffs, construction materials (1995) partners: Kenya 24%, Djibouti 18%, Pakistan 6% (1995 est.) Debt-external: $2.6 billion (1994 est.) Economic aid: recipient: ODA, $NA Currency: 1 Somali shilling (So. Sh.) = 100 cents Exchange rates: Somali shillings (So. Sh.) per US$1-7,500 (November 1997 est.), 7,000 (January 1996 est.), 5,000 (1 January 1995), 2,616 (1 July 1993), 4,200 (December 1992) note: the Republic of Somaliland, a self-declared independent country not recognized by any government, issues its own currency, the Somaliland shilling (Sol. Sh.); estimated exchange rate, Sol. Sh. per US$1-4,000 (November 1997) Fiscal year: NA Communications Telephones: 9,000 (1991 est.) Telephone system: the public telecommunications system was completely destroyed or dismantled by the civil war factions; all relief organizations depend on their own private systems domestic: recently, local cellular telephone systems have been established in Mogadishu and in several other population centers international: international connections are available from Mogadishu by satellite Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA (there are at least five radio broadcast stations of NA type) Radios: 370,000 (1993 est.) Television broadcast stations: 0 (Somalia's only TV station was demolished during the civil strife, sometime in 1991) Televisions: 118,000 (1993 est.) @Somalia:Transportation Railways: 0 km Highways: total: 22,100 km paved: 2,608 km unpaved: 19,492 km (1996 est.) Pipelines: crude oil 15 km Ports and harbors: Bender Cassim (Boosaaso), Berbera, Chisimayu (Kismaayo), Merca, Mogadishu Merchant marine: none Airports: 61 (1997 est.) Airports-with paved runways: total: 7 over 3,047 m: 4 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 1 (1997 est.) Airports-with unpaved runways: total: 54 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 1,524 to 2,437 m: 14 914 to 1,523 m: 27 under 914 m: 10 (1997 est.) @Somalia:Military Military branches: NA; note-no functioning central government military forces; clan militias continue to battle for control of key economic or political prizes Military manp
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