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Under the hump Somaliland’s camel herders are milking it Commercial dairies are scaling up an old trade It is milking time on Mustafa Duale’s farm and the camels are lowing: an eerie groan, like the creak of an old door. A dozen herders strain the milk through a sieve into metal pails. They will sleep here tonight, in the open, beside a pen of thorns. The pails will be loaded into the back of an estate car and reach Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, with the setting sun. Mr Duale watches over his reading glasses, looking every inch the engineer that he is. The city is his home, and boreholes his trade. But in Somaliland, an unrecognised state on the Gulf of Aden, camels are a form of wealth. “My father and grandfather were herders,” says Mr Duale. “It’s like it’s in my genes.” He is one of a group of entrepreneurs who are turning a longstanding trade in camel milk into a commercial business. Hargeisa was not always a good place to be a milkman. The Somali air force f
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