Hudur

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Huddur ( Somali spelling Xuddur, also Hudur, Hodur, Oddur or Huddur Hadama ) is a town in southern Somalia, near the border with Ethiopia. It is the capital of the administrative region of Bakool. According to your calculation about 12,000 residents mainly belong to the clan of the Hadame belonging to the Sagaal - Rahanweyn.

Uddur means as much as "settlement " or " center ", and a local saying goes that " there is no way to Huddur and the grave ." Owed its importance Huddur its water resources that make it to the oasis and feeding station for cattle.

When Siad Barre in 1974 under the administrative structure of Somalia was changed, was Huddur capital of the new Bakool region.

During the Civil War the city was occupied from 1995 by the Mohammed Farah Aidid militia or of its successor Hussein Mohammed Farah. These were superseded by the Rahanweyn Resistance Army in 1998.

In recent years Huddur was fought between the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia and the Islamist al -Shabaab. So loyal to the government troops took back in October 2008, the city of al -Shabaab. In February 2009, al - Shabaab fighters displaced again the government militia. In May of the same year, there were attacks of unknown side to the police station and the landing strips, which were controlled by al -Shabaab.

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• Location in Somalia
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