Baidoa
| Baidoa بيدوا Baidoa |
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| Coordinates | 3 ° 7 ' N , 43 ° 39' E | ||
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| Country | Somalia | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | SO-BY | ||
| Residents | 129,839 (2019) | ||
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Baidoa (also written Baydhabo ) is a city in Somalia with about 130,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Bay region in south-west Somalia and from 2005 was temporarily the provisional seat of the transitional federal government .
The most important clan in Baidoa are the Rahanweyn .
history
In the Somali civil war , Baidoa was fought over between various clan leaders and warlords. During the famine of 1991–1993 , around half a million people are said to have starved to death in the Baidoa region. Baidoa was called the "City of Death" at that time.
In 1995 the warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid disempowered the Rahanweyn local government of the city. In 1999 the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA) recaptured Baidoa from Aidid's son and successor, Hussein Mohammed Farah . In 2001, Hussein Mohammed Farah, the RRA and others joined forces against the newly established transitional federal government and set up their counter-government, the SRRC , in Baidoa . In 2003 the SRRC joined the transitional government.
From 2005 to the end of December 2006, the transitional government under President Abdullahi Yusuf made Ahmed Baidoa (together with Jawhar ) its provisional seat of government, as the state capital Mogadishu had been under the control of rival clans and warlords since 1991 and, in the course of 2006, became more Islamic by the Union Courts was controlled. The power of the transitional government barely extended beyond Baidoa until the end of December 2006.
Heavy fighting broke out in the area at the end of 2006, during which the Union of Islamic Courts was pushed back by the transitional government and Ethiopian armed forces.
On January 26, 2009, the al-Shabab militias captured Baidoa after the last Ethiopian soldiers had withdrawn from the city and Somalia the day before.
On February 22, 2012, the city was retaken by units of the Somali central government and the Ethiopian army allied with it.
sons and daughters of the town
- Nuruddin Farah (* 1945), writer
Web links
- Mohammed Olad Hassan: Somali town fears return of war. In: BBC News . September 27, 2006 (English).
- Somalia warlords clash in Baidoa. In: BBC News. May 30, 2005(English).
- Somalia: the triumphant advance of the Islamists. In: DiePresse.com . January 27, 2009.
Individual evidence
- ^ Population of Cities in Somalia (2019). In: worldpopulationreview.com. January 15, 2019, accessed March 9, 2019 .
- ↑ The Daily Apocalypse . In: GEO 02/2003, p. 60 (article on Mogadishu ).