Gedo
Gedo
Gobolka Gedo | |
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Gedo Region of Somalia | |
UTC+3 (EAT) | |
HDI (2021) | 0.318[2] low · 9th of 18 |
Gedo (
The regional capital is
The Marehan in Gedo are split between the guri ('original inhabitants') and the galti ('new settlers').[6] Guri-Galti conflicts over power and resources are common, especially in Luuq, Belet Hawo, and Baardhere.
Garbaharrey was the last refuge of deposed President
Districts
Gedo Region consists of six districts:[9][10]
- El Wak District
- Bardhere District
- Balet Hawo District
- Doolow District
- Garbahaarreey District
- Luuq District
- Buurdhuubo District
Major rivers in the Gedo region include the Dawa and the Jubba.
Education
The city of
Since the civil war in Somalia, Gedo became one of half dozen regions which have restarted higher education institutions in the country. Bardera Polytechnic, Gedo's first college, and University of Gedo, are both located in Bardera.
Demographics
According to a 1994
The United Nations Development Programme estimated the total in 2005 as 328,378;[9] and UN estimates from 2014 stand at some 508,000.[13]
Economy
The economy mostly depends on livestock and farming but the Gedo region has strong interregional and international cross-border trade with Kenya and some extent with Ethiopia. Trade between Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia allowed the Gedo region to be economically stable for the years before the UN intervention and afterwards. The 1998 Nordic Fact Finding Mission prepared a report in Gedo region and found some encouraging economic figures.
Government
Gedo region has a 32-member assembly body. The members are directly elected from the seven districts of the region with proportionality according to district population. The Gedo assembly or (Gollaha Gobalka Gedo) works with the federal government based in Mogadishu. Regional level posts include:[citation needed]
- Governor
- Vice Governor
- Inter-Regional Affairs Director
- Director of Security Services
- Gedo Regional Police Commander
- Director of Education Services
- Director of Agricultural Agency
- Director of Economic Affairs
- Livestock and Forestry Dept. Director
- Director of Justice and Religious Affairs
After long conflicts in the region, the regional elders started a peace conference with initiatives from the then governor, Aden Ibrahim Aw Hirsi.[citation needed] This effort ended in success. and were followed by the elections of the regional assembly. The process was financed by UNDP.[citation needed]
In addition to regional posts, the Federal Government of Somalia maintains military forces in the region. Brigade 9 of Division 60 (Somalia) was reported in the region as of 2016, originating from a U.S.-funded pilot programme began in 2012.[15]
Cities and towns
Bardera, the largest city and the seat of the most populous district in Gedo, has become urbanized to the extent that its population multiplied 400% since the breakdown of law and order in the capital of the country, Mogadishu. Aside from the urban population in proper Bardera, the rest of the region's population are
- Hareeri
- Kurmaan
- Luuq
- Malmaleey
- Mudulow
- madhawey
- Qooneey
- Shaatooloow
- Siidimo
- Uunsi
- Gus waran
- Eeykiintuuri
- Uar Esgudud
- Xamara
- Yurkud
Notes
- ^ "Somalia: Subdivision and cities". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2024-02-14.
- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
- ^ a b c "Report of the Nordic fact-finding mission to the Gedo region in Somalia 15 October – 30 October 1998" (PDF). p. 7. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ^ "Gudoomiyaha Gobolka Gedo Xuseen Sh. Cabdi 'Farey' oo nasiib daro ku tilmaamay sida uu sharciga u garab maray Raysalwasaare Saacid |". Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. [dead link]
- ^ "allAfrica.com: Somalia: Gedo Region Elects a New Governor (Page 1 of 1)". Archived from the original on 2008-10-12.
- ^ a b CEWERU 2013, p.19
- ^ "West 'backing the wrong horse' in Mogadishu peace initiatives".
- ^ Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (1 December 1997). "Somalia: Information on the Somali National Front in Gedo and on Omar Haji Masalle including his clan and subclan".
- ^ a b Conflict Dynamics International/CEWERU, "From the Bottom Up: Southern Regions: Perspectives through Conflict Analysis and Key Political Actors' Mapping" Archived 2019-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, September 2013, p.16
- ^ "UNSOM 2 Planning and Information Unit Regional Report: Gedo Region" (PDF). Global Information Networks in Education (GINIE). February 1994. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-22. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
- ^ Districts of Somalia
- ^ "Report of the Nordic fact-finding mission to the Gedo region in Somalia 15 October – 30 October 1998" (PDF). p. 8. Retrieved 21 August 2014.
- ^ "Somalia Population Statistics," accessed via https://data.humdata.org/dataset/somalia-population-data, March 2020.
- ^ Report of the Nordic fact-finding mission to the Gedo region in Somalia
- S2CID 159442854.
References
External links
- Administrative Map of Gedo
- Administrative Map of Gedo with villages