Jalalaqsi

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Jalalaqsi (also Jalalassi , Italian Gialalassi or Pietro Verri ) is a city in the Hiiraan region in Somalia with about 15,000 inhabitants. It lies on the Shabeelle River between Buulobarde and Jawhar and is the capital of the Jalalaqsi district.

After the Ogaden War in 1977/78, four camps for refugees from the Ogaden were set up near Jalalaqsi . With around 85,000 inhabitants, these became the third largest settlement in Somalia after the cities of Mogadishu and Hargeysa in the mid-1980s .

In 1990 rebels of the United Somali Congress attacked the military base in nearby Beledweyne in the beginning Somali civil war . The state army then retreated south through the Shabeelle Valley, killing and looting in Beledweyne, Buulobarde, Jalalaqsi and Jawhar. After these events, in which the bridge over the Shabeelle was destroyed, the place Jalalaqsi was temporarily deserted. Of the around 18,000 refugees at the time, around 10,000 had returned to Ethiopia or Mogadishu.

Before the civil war, Jalalaqsi had a primary and a secondary school. At the end of May 2007, the only hospital in Jalalaqsi District, which had been closed for a long time, was reopened.

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  2. ↑ Gaim Kibreab: The Myth of Dependency among Camp Refugees in Somalia 1979-1989 , in: Journal of Refugee Studies 6 (4), 1993, pp. 321-349
  3. ^ Sidney Waldron, Naima A. Hasci: Somali Refugees in the Horn of Africa. State of the art literature review , in: Studies on Emergencies and Disaster Relief 3, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet 1995 online (PDF)
  4. ↑ Ruunki Development Initiatives ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruunki.org.uk
  5. ↑ Shabelle Media ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.shabelle.net

Coordinates: 3 ° 26 '  N , 45 ° 36'  E