Shabeellaha Hoose

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Shabeellaha Hoose
Kenia Dschibuti Äthiopien Awdal Woqooyi Galbeed Togdheer Sanaag Sool (Somalia) Bari (Somalia) Nugaal (Region) Mudug Galguduud Hiiraan Shabeellaha Dhexe Banaadir Bakool Bay (Somalia) Gedo Jubbada Dhexe Jubbada Hoose Shabeellaha Hooselocation
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Basic data
Country Somalia
Capital Merka
surface 25,285 km²
Residents 1,202,219 (calculation 2013)
density 48 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 SO-SH

Coordinates: 1 ° 49 '  N , 44 ° 45'  E

Shabeellaha Hoose ( Somali for sub- Shabelle ; Arabic شبيلي السفلى, DMG Šabailī as-Suflā ) is a region ( gobolka ) in southern Somalia . Its capital is Merka with about 350,000 inhabitants.

The region is named after the Shabelle River through which it flows. It is located on the Indian Ocean , south of Mogadishu . Like Shabeellaha Dhexe (Middle Shabelle), it used to be part of the Benadir region with the state capital Mogadishu as its capital. Other cities and places besides Merka are Afgooye , Qoryooley , Baraawe , Janaale and Wanlaweyne .

The main Somali - clans in Lower Shebelle, the Hawiye and the Biyomaal- you , besides there is a significant Digil -Minderheit. The Bantu ethnic minority in Somalia and other small groups are also represented here. These ethnic groups speak different dialects of Somali.

Conflicts and the influx of internally displaced persons from the embattled state capital Mogadishu led in 2007 to a deterioration in the food situation in the region, which was traditionally regarded as the “bread basket of the country”.

In Shabeellaha Hoose itself, the Islamist groups al-Shabaab and Hezbul Islam have consolidated their control. The region is largely peaceful under their rule, but the Islamists also enforce a strict interpretation of the Sharia .

In 2013 the attempted hostage rescue in Bulo Marer failed .

Web links

Commons : Lower Shabele Region  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ population estimation survey 2014 ( UNFPA ) table A3
  2. ↑ Somalia: Malnutrition stalks once fertile region , in: IRIN News: September 27, 2007
  3. ↑ Malnutrition increases as humanitarian emergency worsens in the Shabelles , in: IRIN News, November 1, 2007
  4. ^ Somali road trip to Islamist heartland , in: BBC News, October 29, 2009
Somali states / regimes
(Predecessor and successor or collapsing states or regimes and their political system)


Colonial times

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After the Second World War

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From independence
to civil war

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Civil war period,
collapse of the central state
(claims to recognition)
as a split-off state

Flag of Somaliland.svg Republic of Somaliland (since 1991, presidential system)

as part of Somalia

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as successor government
over total Somalia

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New constitution from 2012

not involved in the state

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Central government

SomaliaSomalia Federal Republic of Somalia (parliamentary democracy)