Yemen's Aden government says Houthi rebels guilty of 'economic vandalism' in banknote dispute
Employees count bundles of Yemeni Riyal at the Central Bank of Yemen in Sanaa January 7, 2020. Picture taken January 7, 2020.
Yemenis from both sides told Reuters the ban had effectively created two currencies with diverging values, adding to the turmoil in a state already governed by two powers and brought to its knees by the war. "We go for the exchange and they won't take [the new notes] from us. Or say they need three, four or five days," craftsman Abdullah Saleh al Dahmasi told Reuters on a Sanaa street a week before the ban came into force.
"When people saw that new currency come into circulation, they held onto it as it was new and shiny. But now it’s a problem that they have it," said 28-year-old Abdallah Bashiri, a private-sector worker in Sanaa.
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