Shabeellaha Dhexe
Shabeellaha Dhexe | |
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Basic data | |
Country | Somalia |
Capital | Jawhar |
surface | 22,663 km² |
Residents | 516,036 (calculation 2013) |
density | 23 inhabitants per km² |
ISO 3166-2 | SO-SD |
Coordinates: 2 ° 50 ' N , 45 ° 34' E
Shabeellaha Dhexe ( Somali for Middle Shabelle ; Arabic شبيلي الوسطى, DMG Šabailī al-Wusṭā ) is a region ( gobolka ) in central Somalia . Their capital is Jawhar .
The region is named after the Shabelle River through which it flows. It is located on the Indian Ocean north of Mogadishu . Like Shabeellaha Hoose (Sub-Shabelle), it used to be part of the Benadir region with the capital Mogadishu as its capital.
The most important Somali - communities in Middle Shebelle are the Hawiye . Members of the Shidle minority also live near Jawhar .
Shabeellaha Dhexe is divided into the districts of Aden Yabal (Aadan Yabaal), Balad (Balcad), Adale (Cadale) and Jawhar . Other places and cities in the region are Mahaddayweyne and Warsheikh .
A private education initiative has increased the school enrollment rate in Shabeellaha Dhexe to about 24%, which is the highest regional rate in southern Somalia and about twice the national average.
Conflicts and the influx of internally displaced people from the embattled Mogadishu led to a deterioration in the food situation in the region in 2007, which was traditionally regarded as the “bread basket of the country”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ population estimation survey 2014 ( UNFPA ) table A3
- ^ Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit Somalia; according to classification by the Government of the Republic of Somalia, 1986
- ^ Garowe Online: Education has a champion in Somalia
- ↑ IRIN News: SOMALIA: Malnutrition stalks once fertile region
- ↑ IRIN News: Malnutrition increases as humanitarian emergency worsens in the Shabelles