Baligubadle | |
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Town | |
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 Local council seal of Baligubadle | |
  Baligubadle .svg) Baligubadle | |
| Coordinates: 9°0′0″N 44°0′1″E / 9.00000°N 44.00028°E | |
| Country |  Somaliland |
| Region | Maroodi Jeex |
| District | Baligubadle |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Shiine Abdi Hayaan |
| Population (2021)[1] | |
| • Total | 110,000 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
Baligubadle is a town in the southern Maroodi Jeex region of Somaliland.[2] The locality serves as the capital of the Baligubadle District, an administrative subdivision of the Maroodi Jeex region that was created in 1991 after regaining Somaliland independence,[3] and straddles the border with the Somali Region of Ethiopia. The town has approximately 18,000 inhabitants.[4]
The town's inhabitants are mostly pastoralist whereby the local economy is predominantly dependent on livestock trade, however small-scale rain fed farming is also practiced.[5]
- ^ https://www.eld-initiative.org/fileadmin/Regreening_Africa_publications/ELD_somalia_report.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Somaliland’s Quest for International Recognition and the HBM-SSC Factor Archived May 28, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The district status of Baligubadle is legally enshrined in Art. 10.1) of the (Somaliland) Regions and Districts Self-management Law, No. 23/2019. See also here. This law does not describe the geographical boundaries of the district. This law also does not mention "Hawd" as a region in Somaliland, and the earlier presidential decree creating "Hawd" has thus not been confirmed by law and must be considered as invalid.
- ^ "An assessment of the economic impact of land degradation in Somaliland: A case study of Baligubadle and Bookh rangelands" (PDF). The Economics of Land Degradation.
- ^ Ismail, Dr. Adam (May 2016). "An Analysis Of Women's Land Rights & Territorial Rights Of Somali Minorities In Somaliland" (PDF). SCOTRA.