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16-655: Middle Juba is bordered by the Somali regions of Gedo , Bay , Lower Shebelle (Shabellaha Hoose), Lower Juba (Jubbada Hoose), and the Indian Ocean . The region is named after the Jubba River that runs through it. The region has agricultural production, and the products of it are sesame , corn , millet , beans , and large fruits. Middle Juba is the only region in Somalia to be fully controlled by Al-Shabaab ,

32-676: A 1994 UNOSOM II estimate, the population of Gedo was about 590,000, the majority of the population being from the Marehan clan. Other estimates varied considerably; two reports by the United Nations Development Office for Somalia issued in the same year, 1995, gave very different estimates: 330,000 and about 1 million. The United Nations Development Programme estimated the total population in 2005 at 328,378; and UN estimates from 2014 stand at some 508,000. The economy mostly depends on livestock and farming, but

48-685: A campus at Beled Haawo . Garbahaarreey Garbahare (also: Garbaharey ) ( Somali : Garbaharey , Maay : Garbiharey , Arabic : جربهاري ) is the capital of Gedo , an administrative region in southern Somalia . It is the third most populous city in the Gedo region after Bardera and Luuq . During the Middle Ages, Garbahare and its surrounding area was part of the Ajuran Empire that governed much of southern Somalia and eastern Ethiopia , with its domain extending from Hobyo in

64-783: A curriculum. They are connected through the Gedo Education Committee . All of Gedo region's high school graduates attended the Somali National University or affiliated institutions in Mogadishu . Since the civil war in Somalia, Gedo became one of half dozen regions which have restarted higher education institutions in the country. Bardera Polytechnic , Gedo's first college, and the University of Gedo , are both located in Bardera. According to

80-548: A militant Islamic extremist group. As of 2022, Middle Juba has the lowest Human Development Index score out of 1,790 subnational regions . Middle Juba consists of four districts: This Somalia location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gedo Gedo ( Somali : Gedo , Maay : Gethy , Arabic : جيذو , Italian : Ghedo or Ghedu ) is an administrative region ( gobol ) in Jubaland , southern Somalia . Its regional capital

96-823: Is Garbahaarreey . The region was formed during 1974 and is bordered by the Ogaden in Ethiopia , the North Eastern Province in Kenya , and the Somali regions of Bakool , Bay , Jubbada Dhexe (Middle Juba), and Jubbada Hoose (Lower Juba) further down east. The southern parts of Gedo, west of the Jubba River , used to be part of the old British Trans-Juba region during half of the seventy years of colonial era in Africa from 1890 to 1960. The British and Italians fought twice over this area. The regional capital

112-516: Is Garbaharey . The Marehan (Darod) dominate economically, politically, and militarily, and rule across all districts. The Marehan in Gedo are split between the guri ('original inhabitants') and the galti ('new settlers'). Guri-Galti conflicts over power and resources are common, especially in Luuq, Belet Hawo, and Baardhere. President Siad Barre 's forces withdrew to Gedo following the collapse of

128-670: The Somali Democratic Republic in the early 1990s. After 1991, the Somali National Front (SNF) under Marehan Omar Haji Mohamed held large parts of the region for many years. In collaboration with the SNF, Gedo joined the growing trend of Islamic Courts at the start of the Somali Civil War and local sharia courts succeeded in making Luuq District one of Somalia's safest areas for much of

144-514: The 1990s. The militant religious group al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) also rose to power in the region later, taking over the city of Luuq as its headquarters. The Ethiopian National Defence Force then entered the area to attack AIAI's bases in 1996, and the Marehan clans split, either supporting or opposing the Ethiopian forces. A peace conference to resolve the intra-Marehan disagreements

160-684: The Gedo region has strong interregional and international cross-border trade with Kenya and to some extent with Ethiopia. Trade across Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia allowed the Gedo region to be economically stable for the years before the UN intervention and afterward. The 1998 Nordic Fact Finding Mission prepared a report on the Gedo region and found some encouraging economic figures. Davidson College assistant professor Ken Menkhaus said that "Traders in Gedo region made more profit than, for instance, those in Hargeisa, in north-western Somalia." Trade going through

176-496: The border between the three countries was ongoing despite the raging civil war in Somalia for much of the 1990. Gedo region has a 32-member assembly body. The members are directly elected from the seven districts of the region with proportionality according to district population. The Gedo assembly or (Gollaha Gobalka Gedo) works with the federal government based in Mogadishu. Regional level posts include: After long conflicts in

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192-427: The extent that its population multiplied 400% since the breakdown of law and order in the capital of the country, Mogadishu. Aside from the urban population in proper Bardera, the rest of the region's population are pastoralists with the exception of people living in the cities where the region's seven district seats are located. The town is home to Bardera Polytechnic as well as the University of Gedo which also has

208-702: The north, to Qelafo in the west, to Kismayo in the south. In the early modern period, the Garbahare area was ruled by the Geledi Sultanate . The kingdom was eventually incorporated into the Italian Somaliland protectorate in 1910 after the death of its last Sultan Osman Ahmed in 1910. After independence in 1960, the city became the capital of Gedo region. 3°21′N 42°16′E  /  3.350°N 42.267°E  / 3.350; 42.267 This Somalia location article

224-580: The region as of 2016, originating from a U.S.-funded pilot programme that began in 2012. Bardera and Beled Haawo cities are the two principal cities of the Gedo region. In the recent past, Luuq or Lugh used to be the main political city of the Gedo Region, but the Somali Civil War made many of the city's residents to flee to other towns. Bardera, the largest city and the seat of the most populous district in Gedo, has become urbanized to

240-482: The region, the regional elders started a peace conference with initiatives from the then governor, Aden Ibrahim Aw Hirsi . This effort ended in success. and were followed by the elections of the regional assembly. The process was financed by UNDP. In addition to regional posts, the Federal Government of Somalia maintains military forces in the region. Brigade 9 of Division 60 (Somalia) was reported in

256-529: Was convened in 2004. The first democratically elected governor of the administrative region was Hussein Farey , who entered office in 2008. Gedo Region consists of seven districts: The Dawa and Jubba rivers are the two major rivers of the region. The city of Garbahaarreey and the region's two ancient cities of Luuq and Bardera had education systems up to the secondary level. There were some technical schools in Bardera and Garbaharreey, albeit without

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