Buur Gaabo

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Coordinates: 1 ° 13 ′  S , 41 ° 50 ′  E

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Buur Gaabo (also Bur Gap, Bur Gavo, Bur Gabo, Burgao, Bircao ) is a port city in southern Somalia , Jubbada Hoose province , near the border with Kenya .

history

Unofficial colonial map from 1890 with German claims (in yellow) and Hohenzollernhafen (in the excerpt above)

After a protection treaty between the German-East African Society and Sultan Ali ibn Ismail von Kismaayo , Karl Ludwig Jühlke and Joachim Graf von Pfeil hoisted the company's flag in Wubuschi Bay on November 26, 1886 and named the place Hohenzollernhafen . A German station was not established, however, because Jühlke was murdered shortly afterwards. The establishment also failed due to the British-German border agreement of 1886 with which the two states defined their spheres of interest in East Africa.

After the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty in 1890, the area claimed by the DOAG fell to British East Africa , and Hohenzollernhafen was renamed Port Durnford . The British ceded Jubaland to the Italians in 1924 , as part of the Oltre Giuba it became part of Italian Somaliland in 1926 and part of Somalia with independence in 1960.

The city had a population of around 3,500 at the beginning of the 20th century and just under 4,000 at the beginning of the 21st century. During the Somali civil war , the city became a refuge for various Islamist groups; the population had decreased to around 300 at the height of the famine in 2011 . In the fight against the al-Shabaab militia , Kenyan intervention forces and Somali government forces, supported by French ship artillery and US air strikes, occupied the Buur Gaabo area at the end of October 2011.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The naming was not coordinated with the German ruling house . It evoked the decided displeasure of Bismarck , who called it “arbitrary and unacceptable” (quoted in Bückendorf 1997, p. 231, fn. 166).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jutta Bückendorf: “Black-white-red over East Africa!” - German colonial plans and African reality. Lit, Münster 1997, p. 231 f.
  2. ↑ Kenyans head for showdown in Somalia
  3. ^ Another town falls to Kenyan military

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