Hargeisa short of water, swims in flood of banknotes HARGEISA, 6 APRIL 2003--Residents of Hargeisa are alternately looking up longingly at an unyielding sky for succour from the painful spasms of thirst while pummelled from every side by a flood of sharp-cutting, newly printed banknotes that spooked local markets to climb fast on an upward spiralling hyper-inflation.