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==Geography==
==Geography==
Physiographically, Buuhoodle is located in [[Ciid]], and geopolitically, on the border between Somalia and [[Ethiopia]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Issa |first1=Jama |title=Taariikhda Daraawiishta |date=1974 |page=32 |quote=Shiikh Cabdille Xasan wuxuu ku dhashay dhulka loo yaqaan Ciid-Nugaaleed ama Laaso oo ah degmada Buuhoodle}}</ref>
Physiographically, Buuhoodle is located in [[Ciid]], and geopolitically, on the border between Somalia and [[Ethiopia]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Issa |first1=Jama |title=Taariikhda Daraawiishta |date=1974 |page=32 |quote=Shiikh Cabdille Xasan wuxuu ku dhashay dhulka loo yaqaan Ciid-Nugaaleed ama Laaso oo ah degmada Buuhoodle}}</ref>

==Politics==
Buuhoodle is the capital of the [[Cayn]] region which was carved out of the [[Togdheer]] region and encompasses the majority of [[Buuhoodle District]].

In June 2014, the Puntland government launched a new tree-planting campaign in the state, with the regional Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism slated to plant 25,000 trees by the end of the year. Buuhoodle is among the 5 cities and towns earmarked for the reforestation initiative, which also include [[Garowe]], [[Bosaso]], [[Qardho]], and [[Galkayo]]. The campaign is part of a broader partnership between the Puntland authorities and EU to set up various environmental protection measures in the region, with the aim of promoting reforestation and afforestation.<ref name="Gswedcipgcftp">{{cite news|title=Somalia: World Environment Day celebrated in Puntland, Govt calls for tree plantation |url=http://www.garoweonline.com/artman2/publish/Somalia_27/Somalia-World-Environment-Day-celebrated-in-Puntland-Govt-calls-for-tree-plantation_printer.shtml |accessdate=6 June 2014 |agency=Garowe Online |date=5 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606220447/http://www.garoweonline.com/artman2/publish/Somalia_27/Somalia-World-Environment-Day-celebrated-in-Puntland-Govt-calls-for-tree-plantation_printer.shtml |archivedate=6 June 2014 }}</ref>


==History==
==History==

Revision as of 19:52, 21 February 2024

Buuhoodle
بوهودله
City
Official seal of Buuhoodle
Seal
Buuhoodle is located in Somalia
Buuhoodle
Buuhoodle
Location in Somalia
Coordinates: 8°13′52″N 46°19′36″E / 8.23111°N 46.32667°E / 8.23111; 46.32667
Country Somalia
Regional State Khatumo
DistrictBuuhoodle
Government
 • TypeDistrict Council
Population
 (2006)[1]
 • Total
11,373
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)

Buuhoodle (Template:Lang-so, Template:Lang-ar), also known as Bohotle, is the largest city in the Cayn region of Somalia.[2] It serves as a significant border town for the movement of goods between Somalia and the Somali Region of Ethiopia. The surrounding district is rich in livestock with growing agricultural activities.

Territorial dispute

Main article: Somaliland-Puntland dispute

Buuhoodle, the second most important city for the Dhulbahante after Las Anod, is currently under the control of local unionist militia. Despite efforts by the Somaliland administration, the 2021 Somaliland parliamentary and municipal elections did not take place in the city.[3]

The city is disputed by Puntland and Somaliland. The former bases its claim due to the kinship ties between the Dhulbahante clan and the dominant clan in Puntland, the Majeerteen. Whilst the later's claim is grounded on the border of the former British Somaliland Protectorate.[4] The city was the de facto capital of Khatumo State throughout its existence until its dissolvement in 2017.[5][6]

A conflict ensued in the vicinity of Buuhoodle between Somaliland and SSC Movement troops in 2010 and again in 2012.[7] The conflict which became known as the Kalshale conflict was at first a clan skirmish but quickly escalated to involve the two administrations. It was eventually resolved in early 2012, with the official withdrawal of Somaliland troops to a 50 km radius of the city's perimeter.[8]

Currently, Buuhoodle is under the control of SSC-Khaatumo administration forces. On December 12, 2023, a delegation led by President Abdikhadir Ahmed Aw-Ali visited Buuhoodle.[9][10]

Geography

Physiographically, Buuhoodle is located in Ciid, and geopolitically, on the border between Somalia and Ethiopia.[11]

History

Dervish period

Main article: Dervish movement

The Dervish Movement emerged in Buuhoodle and localities in its vicinity. According to a contemporaneous news report from The Marion Star, the Bah Ali Gheri, were the first people to adopt the Dervish identity; as such, making the Bah Ali Gheri onelings the founders of the Dervish:[12]

By his marriage he extended his influence from Abyssinia, on the west, to the borders of Italian Somaliland, on the east. The Ali Gheri were his first followers.

— The Marion Star, rehash from British intelligence reports

The Bah Ali Geri, a clan in the south of Buuhoodle, were the people whom hosted the Sayid Mohamed during the fledgling moments of the Dervish in the 19th century:[13]

"This Haji Muhammad Abdullah belongs to the Habr Suleiman Ogaden tribe; he married into the Dolbahanta Ali Gheri, amongst whom he now lives".

British intelligence reports also claimed that the Bah Ali Geri clan were the earliest or old allies of the Mad Mullah (Sayid Muhammad Abdullah Hassan):[14]

"Mullah to flee eastwards and rejoin his old allies, the Ali Gheri, south of Bohotele, where he would be difficult to get at, either by the Abyssinians or ourselves".

Commander-poet Ismail Mire (pictured) administered the largest infantry Shiikhyaale

In the oldest surviving work on Dervishes, Malcolm Mcneill states the two largest subclans in Buuhoodle, the Bah Ali Gheri and Ararsame were the main opponents of European colonialism:[15]

The two principal offenders were the Ali Gheri and the Arasama tribes, who had for a long time made the whole Dolbahanta country unsafe for Europeans without a large escort; it was now time to settle with them once and for all.

— Malcolm McNeill

As a consequence of their anti-colonialism, 1200 Ararsame and Bah Ali Gheri clansmen were killed and their livestock embezzled:[16]

The total number of casualties inflicted on the enemy at McNeill's zariba and in the subsequent pursuit in the Ararsamah and the Ali Gheri country, and at Ferdiddin, cannot have fallen far short of some 1,200 men killed ... The camels were either given as compensation to the Ishak tribes who had been looted by the Mullah or were handed over to the men, with their how disposed consent, in lieu of pay, thus reducing the cost of the expedition.

— McNeill

James Hayes Sadler stated that the primary base of Dervish support came from Buuhoodle:[17]

Unless we can soon operate with Abyssinia to suppress the Mullah, I shall have to create a diversion by moving with available forces, supported by tribal levies, to punish tribes who are Mullah's principal supporters round Bohotele. This could be safely done, as the eastern Ishak tribes are friendly and united.

— Sadler

Eric Swayne stated that the people of Buuhoodle had "always proved to be the backbone" of adherence to Dervishnimo.[18]

He had attempted to combine the Ogaden against Mersin for them, but these tribes having been badly treated by him, would not now help, and Dolbahanta on the punishment of one of their outlying sections by the Abyssinians, the Mullah found himself compelled to retire eastward to Bohotle to our Dolbahanta tribes, his own kinsmen, who have always proved to be the backbone of his following.

— Eric Swayne

In 1904, a disease similar to smallpox was reported in a black unit of the British Army in Buuhoodle. [19]

Dervish raids

1912 was a tumultuous year for the Dhulbahante clans inhabiting Bohotle and the Ain valley. The clans of Bohotle being allies of the British Empire, were set upon and attacked by Hassan and his Dervish army, forcing them to evacuate and seek refuge in Burao, Berbera and Haud among the Isaaq clans. British colonial governor Horace Byatt reported that 800 Dhulbahante refugees arrived in Berbera, but feared that they could not be protected nor fed properly, stating that only 300 native infantry and 200 King's African Rifles were in Berbera and insufficient to hold off a Dervish attack. Byatt also raised concerns for the Dhulbahante refugees en route to British controlled territory and the possibility of them being looted by hostile clans, particularly the Habr Yunis.[20]

Baron Ismay's intelligence report on the Dervish raids on the Bah Ali Gheri and the Dolbahanta clan's of Bohotle

No important move was made till November 1911, when he successfully attacked the Ali gheri at Bohotleh. He followed this up in February 1912 with an attack on the Dolbahanta at Eildab, In this engagement our people lost all their stock and were reduced to starvation. They flocked to Berbera demanding to be supported. Yet another attack on Bohotleh in March resulted in the remaining Dolbahanta in that vicinity being looted and driven out. Bohotleh remained in Dervish hands.[21]

British colonial administrator Sir Douglas Jardine describing the plight of the Dhulbahante writes :

The most pitiful lot of all fell to certain sections of the Dolbahanta. Ousted from their ancestral grazing grounds by the Mullah's advance and bereft of all their stock, the remnants wandered like veritable Ishmaelites in the Ishaak country, deprived of Asylum and almost all access to the coast.[22]

These conditions were not limited to the Dhulbahante only but encompassed the entire territory of British Somaliland Protectorate.[23][24] The British retreat to coastal outposts left the interior country in a state of power vacuum that heralded a period acute distress, scarcity and violence that came to be known locally as Xaaraame Cune "time of eating filth". An estimated one third of the entire population of Somaliland perished during this period.[25]

Until Somalia's Independence

According to 1937 records, the soil around Buhoodle is gray red sand with rocky patches, but many grasses, mostly Dalemo (Andropogon aucherii), grow in the area, which is a large meadow interspersed with dense bushes.[26]

After the Somali Civil War

Prior to 1999, neither Somaliland nor Puntland was involved in the administration of Buhoodle.[27]: 113 

In November 2000, an armed clash between two sub-tribes of the Dhulbahante clan occurred in Buhoodle, killing four people.[28]

In October 2001, the Puntland government claimed Sool, Eastern Sanaag, Bari, Northern Mudug, Nugal and the district of Buuhoodle as its territory.[29]

In October 2001, Buhoodle entered the rainy season, but the drought conditions in the pastures did not improve.[30]

In August 2002, the Somaliland Armed Forces established a military division and a new commander in the combined area of Sool and Buhoodle districts.[31]

In November 2004, a major drought occurred over a large area, including Buhoodle.[32]

In October 2007, fighting broke out between Somaliland and Puntland forces in Ras Anod and many residents fled in the direction of Garoowe, Buuhoodle, Kalabaydh and Hawdka.[33]

Recent history

In April 2016, armed militias against the Khatumo State reportedly rose up in Buuhoodle.[34]

In February 2017, troops supporting President Farmaajo led by Cabdifataax Is-diid occupy Buuhoodle; Is-diid states that he supports neither Somaliland nor Khatumo.[35]

In August 2017, inter-clan fighting broke out in Buuhoodle.[36]

On August 1, 2018, a suicide bomber blew himself up in Buuhoodle, identified as Abdifatah Mohamed Ali, who previously worked in the government of Prime Minister Omar Sharmarke, and Ahmed Mohamed Dolal, who previously served as Interior Minister in the Khatumo government.[37][38]

In September 2019, officers stationed in Buuhoodle said they belong to Puntland and not Somaliland.[39]

In October 2019, the Puntland government announced the 25 members of the Buuhoodle District Council.[40]

In December 2019, a group called SSC was formed in Buuhoodle as a unification of Sool, Sanaag, and Cayn. The next day, The Minister of public works and Housing of Somaliland, Abdirashid Haji Duale, called on residents to non-cooperate with the SSC, saying the Buuhoodle rebels are an attempt by the group to profit from the war.[41]

In May 2020, the Minister of Insurance of the Federal Republic of Somalia visited Buuhoodle by plane to deliver medical supplies against COVID-19.[42]

In 2020, logistics from Buuhoodle to Las Anod and Burao were halted due to inter-clan conflict.[43]

In June 2021, the Buuhoodle mayoral election was held in Widhwidh and Khadija Ahmed Yussuf of the Kulmiye Party was elected.[44][45] Khadija became the first female mayor elected by majority vote.[46] Note that no voter registration was conducted in the urban area of Buuhoodle.[47] : 11 

In January 2023, Buuhoodle representative Somaliland MP supported the Somaliland government regarding the riots in Las Anod and criticized forces opposing Somaliland.[48]

Demographics

The town had an estimated population of 11,373 as of 2006,[49] with the broader Buuhoodle District having a estimated population of 83,747 residents in 2014.[50] Buuhoodle is primarily inhabited by people from the Somali ethnic group, with the clan eponyms of Ararsame and Bah Ali Gheri[51] of Dhulbahante especially well-represented.[52]

Education

Buuhoodle has a number of academic institutions. According to the Puntland Ministry of Education, there are 12 primary schools, 3 high schools and 2 universities in the Buuhoodle District. Among these are H/dh Abu-Bakar Sadiq, H/dh Al-Najax, H/dh Al-Furqan and so on.[53] Secondary schools in the area include Howd and Samatar Bahman.[54]

For health education, there is Buhodle College Of Health Science.

For higher studies, Buuhoodle is served by the East Africa University (EAU). The institution opened a seventh branch in the town on 18 April 2012 to serve pupils from the Cayn region.[55]

Notable residents

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