Borama District Explained

Official Name:Borama District
Native Name:Degmada Boorama
Settlement Type:District
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Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Awdal
Subdivision Type2:Capital
Subdivision Name2:Borama
Unit Pref:Metric
Population As Of:2014
Population Footnotes:[1] [2] [3] [4]
Population Total:398,609
Timezone:EAT
Utc Offset:+3

Borama District (Somali: Degmada Boorama) is a district of the Awdal region in Somaliland.[5]

Demographics

The Awdal Region in which the district is situated is mainly inhabited by the Gadabuursi subclan of the Dir who are especially well represented and considered the predominant clan of the region.[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

Federico Battera (2005) states about the Awdal Region:

"Awdal is mainly inhabited by the Gadabuursi confederation of clans."[15]

A UN Report published by Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (1999), states concerning Awdal:

"The Gadabuursi clan dominates Awdal region. As a result, regional politics in Awdal is almost synonymous with Gadabuursi internal clan affairs."[16]

Roland Marchal (1997) states that numerically, the Gadabuursi are the predominant inhabitants of the Awdal Region:

"The Gadabuursi's numerical predominance in Awdal virtually ensures that Gadabuursi interests drive the politics of the region."[17]

Marleen Renders and Ulf Terlinden (2010) both state that the Gadabuursi almost exclusively inhabit the Awdal Region:

"Awdal in western Somaliland is situated between Djibouti, Ethiopia and the Issaq-populated mainland of Somaliland. It is primarily inhabited by the three sub-clans of the Gadabursi clan, whose traditional institutions survived the colonial period, Somali statehood and the war in good shape, remaining functionally intact and highly relevant to public security."[18]

There is also a sizeable minority of the Issa subclan of the Dir who mainly inhabit the Zeila district.[19]

See also

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Regions, districts, and their populations: Somalia 2005 (draft) . . . 31 December 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170728203029/https://docs.unocha.org/sites/dms/Somalia/UNDP-POP-RURAL-URBAN%202005.pdf . 28 July 2017 . dead.
  2. Web site: Boorama (District, Somalia) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location .
  3. Book: Solar Eclipses 2024–2027: Where and When to Experience Totality. 13 March 2023. Bradt Travel Guides. 978-1-80469-162-5. dmy-all.
  4. Web site: Utilization pattern of antenatal care and determining factors among reproductive-age women in Borama, Somaliland. dmy-all.
  5. http://www.statoids.com/yso.html Districts of Somalia
  6. Book: Ambroso, G (2002). Pastoral society and transnational refugees:population movements in Somaliland and eastern Ethiopia 1988 - 2000 . 5. Main sub-clan(s) Habr Awal, Region(s): Waqooyi Galbeed, Main districts: Gabiley, Hargeisa, Berbera. Main sub-clan(s) Gadabursi, Region(s): Awdal, Main districts: Borama, Baki, part. Gabiley, Zeila, Lughaya.. .
  7. Samatar, Abdi I.. Somali Reconstruction and Local Initiative: Amoud University. Bildhaan. 4 November 2008 . 1 . 1 . 132. Samaroon or Gadabursi is the clan name for the majority of people of Awdal origin..
  8. Book: Battera . Federico . Walter Dostal, Wolfgang Kraus (ed.) . Shattering Tradition: Custom, Law and the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean . 18 March 2010 . 2005 . I.B. Taurus . London . 1-85043-634-7 . 296 . Chapter 9: The Collapse of the State and the Resurgence of Customary Law in Northern Somalia . https://books.google.com/books?id=Pos3wAofV4UC&pg=PA278 . Awdal is mainly inhabited by the Gadabuursi confederation of clans. The Gadaabursi are concentrated in Awdal..
  9. UN (1999) Somaliland: Update to SML26165.E of 14 February 1997 on the situation in Zeila, including who is controlling it, whether there is fighting in the area, and whether refugees are returning. "Gadabuursi clan dominates Awdal region. As a result, regional politics in Awdal is almost synonymous with Gadabuursi internal clan affairs." p. 5.
  10. Book: Renders . Marleen . Terlinden . Ulf . Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa . Chapter 9: Negotiating Statehood in a Hybrid Political Order: The Case of Somaliland . Tobias Hagmann . Didier Péclard . 191. 2012-01-21. "Awdal in western Somaliland is situated between Djibouti, Ethiopia and the Issaq-populated mainland of Somaliland. It is primarily inhabited by the three sub-clans of the Gadabursi clan, whose traditional institutions survived the colonial period, Somali statehood and the war in good shape, remaining functionally intact and highly relevant to public security.".
  11. Book: Jörg, J. What are Somalia's Development Perspectives?. 2001 . 132. Verlag Hans Schiler . 978-3-86093-230-8 . Awdal region, populated by Dir clans : the Gadabursi and ` Cisa, is credited as being the most stable region in Somaliland . This is mainly due to peacekeeping efforts on the part of the Gadabursi clan who dominate this region..
  12. Book: Countries That Aren't Really Countries. 22. The Isaaq are concentrated primarily in the regions of Maroodi Jeex, Sanaag, Gabiley, Togdheer and Saaxil. The Gadabuursi inhabit the west, pre-dominantly in Awdal, the Zeila district of Salal and parts of Gabiley..
  13. Book: Bruchhaus, E. M, Sommer, M. M.. Hot Spot Horn of Africa Revisited (2008). 2008 . 54. 978-3-8258-1314-7 . Next to the three sub-clans of the Gadabursi, a small minority of Ciisse inhabits Awdal..
  14. Book: Deutsches Institut für Afrika-Forschung. Afrika Spectrum Volume 43. 2008 . 77. Gadabursi being the major descent group in the Awdal region..
  15. Book: Battera . Federico . Walter Dostal, Wolfgang Kraus (ed.) . Shattering Tradition: Custom, Law and the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean . 2010-03-18 . 2005 . I.B. Taurus . London . 1-85043-634-7 . 296 . Chapter 9: The Collapse of the State and the Resurgence of Customary Law in Northern Somalia . https://books.google.com/books?id=Pos3wAofV4UC&pg=PA278 . Awdal is mainly inhabited by the Gadabuursi confederation of clans..
  16. UN (1999) Somaliland: Update to SML26165.E of 14 February 1997 on the situation in Zeila, including who is controlling it, whether there is fighting in the area, and whether refugees are returning. "The Gadabuursi clan dominates Awdal region. As a result, regional politics in Awdal is almost synonymous with Gadabuursi internal clan affairs." p. 5.
  17. Web site: United Nations Development Office for Somalia: Studies on Governance: Awdal Region. 1997. dmy-all. The Gadabuursi's numerical predominance in Awdal virtually ensures that Gadabuursi interests drive the politics of the region.. Marchal. Roland.
  18. Book: Renders . Marleen . Terlinden . Ulf . Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa . Chapter 9: Negotiating Statehood in a Hybrid Political Order: The Case of Somaliland . Tobias . Hagmann . Didier . Péclard . 191. 2012-01-21. Awdal in western Somaliland is situated between Djibouti, Ethiopia and the Issaq-populated mainland of Somaliland. It is primarily inhabited by the three sub-clans of the Gadabursi clan, whose traditional institutions survived the colonial period, Somali statehood and the war in good shape, remaining functionally intact and highly relevant to public security..
  19. Book: Janzen. J.. von Vitzthum. S.. Somali Studies International Association. What are Somalia's Development Perspectives?: Science Between Resignation and Hope? : Proceedings of the 6th SSIA Congress, Berlin 6-9 December 1996. Das Arabische Buch. Proceedings of the ... SSIA-Congress. 2001. 978-3-86093-230-8. 20 July 2018. 132. https://web.archive.org/web/20180720102419/https://books.google.com/books?id=DZJPm2j2iz4C&pg=PA132. 20 July 2018. live. dmy-all.

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