- Buurhakaba
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footnotes =Buurhakaba ( _so. "Buurhakaba") is a city located in the administrative region ("
gobolka ") of Bay in southwesternSomalia . It is the second largest town in the region afterBaidoa , 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 theRahanweyn clan of theSomali 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 October2006 Buurakaba had come under the control of theIslamic Courts Union . However, soldiers of theTransitional Federal Government , supported by theEthiopian Army , recaptured the city in December as part of theBattle of Baidoa .Notes
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