Baligubadle

Baligubadle
Baligubadle
Town
	Local council seal of Baligubadle
	Baligubadle
	Coordinates: 9°0′0″N 44°0′1″E / 9.00000°N 44.00028°ECoordinates: 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
Time zone	UTC+3 (EAT)

Baligubadle is a town in the southern Maroodi Jeex region of Somaliland.^[1] The locality serves as the capital of the Baligubadle District, an administrative subdivision of the Maroodi Jeex region that was created in 2019,^[2] and straddles the border with the Somali Region of Ethiopia. The town has approximately 18,000 inhabitants.^[3]

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.^[4]

History[]

Sultan Farah of the Arap and Garaad Abdiqani of the Dhulbahante

The town of Baligubadle served as the administrative headquarters of the SNM^[5] and played a crucial role in the formation of modern-day Somaliland.

In March 1990, Baligubadle hosted the sixth Somali National Movement congress whereby the role of the House of Elders (Somaliland) was formally institutionalized under Article 4 of the Somali National Movement constitution.^[6]

Additionally, the constitution of the Somali National Movement was adopted at the organisation's sixth congress in the town in 1990.^[7] Therefore, paving way for the future administration to govern for two years.^[7]

Governance[]

A local council is made up of 9 elected officials are responsible for the provision of water, education, health, electricity, and sanitation in the town.^[8] Councillors were first elected in 2001 and subsequently in 2012 and 2021,^[8] continued decentralised processes has empowered the local council in effectively serving its populations needs.

The road from the capital Hargeisa to Baligubadle through the Hawd plain

Education[]

The Farah Nour secondary school, named after the famous poet and warrior Farah Nur who hailed from the area, serves the local population and as a public school, is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Somaliland.^[9]

Notes[]

^ 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.
^ Connaughton, Stacey L.; Berns, Jessica (2019-09-09). Locally Led Peacebuilding: Global Case Studies. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-1411-7.
^ "After Borama: Consensus, representation and parliament in Somaliland". www.africaresearchinstitute.org. Retrieved 2020-02-29.
^ ^a ^b Project, War-torn Societies; Programme, WSP Transition (2005). Rebuilding Somaliland: issues and possibilities. Red Sea Press. ISBN 978-1-56902-229-0.
^ ^a ^b Baligubade District Conflict and Security Assessment (PDF). Hargeisa, Somaliland: The Observatory of Conflict and Violence Prevention. 2015.
^ "Survey of Secondary Education in Somaliland 2008" (PDF). unesdoc.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-06-28.

References[]

Walter Dostal, Wolfgang Kraus, Shattering tradition: custom, law and the individual in the Muslim Mediterranean, (I.B.Tauris: 2005), p. 313.
African Defence Journal, Issues 78–88, (The Journal: 1987), p. 22.

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[Sqfirhbmsscf-1] Somaliland’s Quest for International Recognition and the HBM-SSC Factor Archived May 28, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

[2] 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.

[3] "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.

[4] Ismail, Dr. Adam (May 2016). "An Analysis Of Women's Land Rights & Territorial Rights Of Somali Minorities In Somaliland" (PDF). SCOTRA.

[5] Connaughton, Stacey L.; Berns, Jessica (2019-09-09). Locally Led Peacebuilding: Global Case Studies. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-1411-7.

[6] "After Borama: Consensus, representation and parliament in Somaliland". www.africaresearchinstitute.org. Retrieved 2020-02-29.

[:0-7] Project, War-torn Societies; Programme, WSP Transition (2005). Rebuilding Somaliland: issues and possibilities. Red Sea Press. ISBN 978-1-56902-229-0.

[:1-8] Baligubade District Conflict and Security Assessment (PDF). Hargeisa, Somaliland: The Observatory of Conflict and Violence Prevention. 2015.

[9] "Survey of Secondary Education in Somaliland 2008" (PDF). unesdoc.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-06-28.

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