Huddur
Coordinates: 4 ° 7 ' N , 43 ° 53' E
Huddur ( Somali spelling Xuddur ; also Hudur , Hodur , Oddur or Huddur Hadama ) is a city in southern Somalia , not far from the border with Ethiopia . It is the capital of the Bakool administrative region . According to a calculation, around 12,000 inhabitants belong mainly to the Hadame clan , who belong to the Sagaal- Rahanweyn .
Uddur means something like “settlement” or “center”, and a local saying goes that “there is no way around Huddur and the grave”. Huddur owes its importance to its water resources, which make it an oasis and watering station for cattle.
When the administrative structure of Somalia was changed in 1974 under Siad Barre , Huddur became the capital of the new Bakool region.
During the civil war , the city was occupied from 1995 by the militias of Mohammed Farah Aidid and his successor, Hussein Mohammed Farah . These were ousted by the Rahanweyn resistance army in 1998 .
In recent years, there has been a contest between the Somali interim government and the Islamist al-Shabaab for Huddur . In October 2008, troops loyal to the government took back the city of al-Shabaab. In February 2009, al-Shabaab fighters again ousted the pro-government militias. In May of the same year there were unknown attacks on the police station and the strip of land controlled by al-Shabaab.
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- ↑ bevölkerungsstatistik.de (2009)
- ↑ a b c Huddur , in: Mohamed Haji Mukhtar : Historical Dictionary of Somalia , New Edition, Scarecrow Press 2003, ISBN 0-8108-4344-7
- ↑ Somalia: Govt troops recapture towns from al Shabaab ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Garowe Online, October 25, 2008. Retrieved October 13, 2009.
- ↑ Somalia: Islamist hardliners oust pro-government militia from Bakool ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Garowe Online, February 25, 2009. Retrieved October 13, 2009.
- ↑ Somalia: Al Shabaab base in Bakool region attacked ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Garowe Online, May 2, 2009. Retrieved October 13, 2009.
