Buurhakaba (Somali: Buurhakaba) is a city located in the administrative region (gobolka) of Bay in southwestern Somalia. Somali ( Af Soomaali, الصوماليه is a member of the East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by ethnic Somalis Bay (Baay is an administrative region ( gobolka) in southern Somalia. Somalia ( Soomaaliya; الصومال) officially the Somali Republic ( Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliya, جمهورية الصومال) and formerly known It is the second largest town in the region after Baidoa, with a reported population of 28,000 people. Baidoa ( Baydhabo) is a city in south-central Somalia, situated 256 kilometers (159 miles by road northwest of the capital Mogadishu. [1] The town is named after a large hill that surrounds it.
Originally a settlement of the Oromo people, Buurhakaba was captured by the Rahanweyn clan of the Somali people near the end of the seventeenth century. See also Somali clan The Rahanweyn ( Somali Maay: Reewing; traditional Raxanweyn, الراحانوين is a Somali clan, composed Somalis ( Soomaaliyeed, الصوماليون are an ethnic group located in the Horn of Africa, also known as the Somali Peninsula. [2]
During the Somali Civil War, by October 2006 Buurakaba had come under the control of the Islamic Courts Union. The Somali Civil War is an armed conflict in Somalia that started in 1988 Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The Islamic Courts Union ( ICU, Somali: Midowga Maxkamadaha Islaamiga Arabic: اتحاد المحاكم الإسلامية Ittihād al-mahākim However, soldiers of the Transitional Federal Government, supported by the Ethiopian Army, recaptured the city in December as part of the Battle of Baidoa. The Transitional Federal Government (TFG of the Somali Republic ( Dowladda federaalka kumeelgaarka) is the present internationally recognized government of Somalia The Battle of Baidoa began on December 20, 2006 when the Somali Transitional Federal Government 's forces (TFG allied with Ethiopian forces stationed
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- ^ bevölkerungsstatistik.de
- ^ I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali, fourth edition (Oxford: James Currey, 2002), p. 28
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