Qoryooley
Qoryooley (also written Qorioley , Coriole or Koriolei ) is a city in southern Somalia with a population of about 52,000. It is located on the Shabeelle River in the Shabeellaha Hoose region .
The city is the seat of the Jiidu (Jiddu) Sultanate. It had around 4,000 to 5,000 inhabitants until around 20,000 refugees from Ethiopia ( Ogadeni and Oromo , who fled to Somalia after the Ogaden War ) were settled as part of the Qorioley Refugee Agriculture Project in the 1980s .
The refugees should be able to build a new livelihood with irrigated agriculture in this relatively rainy area, which is also well supplied with water from the Shabeelle. This was done with the help of USAID , Save the Children and the UNHCR . However, the project served above all to enrich corrupt politicians under the dictatorship of Siad Barre . The refugees were accommodated and provided with food, but actual development projects had barely progressed until 1985 despite sufficient funds. Only the irrigation channels had already been dug. This led to demoralization among the refugees. Many of these were also former nomads who were skeptical of sedentarism and agriculture.
After the outbreak of the civil war , as in other parts of southern Somalia, the farms were looted and destroyed, leading to the famine in the early 1990s .
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- Qorioley and Qorioley Refugee Agriculture Project , in: Mohamed Haji Mukhtar : Historical Dictionary of Somalia , New Edition, Scarecrow Press 2003, ISBN 0-8108-4344-7
Coordinates: 1 ° 46 ' N , 44 ° 31' E