Buurhakaba

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Buurhakaba ( _so. "Buurhakaba") is a city located in the administrative region ("gobolka") of Bay in southwestern Somalia. It is the second largest town in the region after Baidoa, with a reported population of 28,000 people. [ [http://www.bevölkerungsstatistik.de/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=de&dat=32&geo=-198&srt=npan&col=aohdq&pt=c&va=x&geo=334102408 bevölkerungsstatistik.de] ] The town is named after a large hill that surrounds it.

Originally a settlement of the Oromo people, Buurhakaba was captured by the Rahanweyn clan of the Somali people near the end of the seventeenth century. [I.M. Lewis, "A Modern History of the Somali", fourth edition (Oxford: James Currey, 2002), p. 28]

During the Somali Civil War, by October 2006 Buurakaba had come under the control of the Islamic Courts Union. However, soldiers of the Transitional Federal Government, supported by the Ethiopian Army, recaptured the city in December as part of the Battle of Baidoa.

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