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Hargeysa

Town in northwestern Somalia; population (2007 est) 522,500. It is the capital of Hargeysa province in the Ogo highland, and is a centre for trade in meat, livestock, skins, and ghee (clarified butter). The town was severely damaged during the Somali civil war in the 1980s.

Hargeysa was the capital of British Somaliland from 1941 to 1960, when the present republic of Somalia was formed by the merger of the British protectorate with Italian Somalia.



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In Phase II, operations would be extended into northern Somalia, based on the port cities of Berbera and Bossasso, then moved to Hargeisa and Garoe.
Somalia: 30,000-strong UN force steps in to 'Restore Hope.' (United ... by UN Chronicle
In 1988, Barre ordered an all,out air war and leveled Hargeisa.
Another cold war casualty by O'Sullivan, Gerry / The Humanist
High Commission on Refugees assisted me with the rest of my journey, which included another plane flight to the steamy port of Berbera in the north; from there a UNHCR Land Cruiser drove across the entire width of northern Somalia, first to Hargeisa, where I spent the night, and then finally, to Tug Wajale, where I slept in a sleeping bag inside a drafty tent on the freezing windy plateau.
The African killing fields; you heard all about the Ethiopian famine. ... by Kaplan, Robert D. / Washington Monthly
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