Abud-Waq, a city neglected by its own Diaspora community

[CoolPoisons]

London-(GMN) Abud-Waq, though classified as a major city, in terms of its population, is a city whose founding date predates the actual independence of Somalia by a mere year. This signifies that Abud-Waq, as a city, is the ‘youngest’ amongst the largest cities in Somalia.

It was founded in 1959 by two prominent Somali traders, Haji Farah Dabcasar and Farah Hirsi Adan-Jir. As the first sign of settlement, they transferred their business activities from their previous base in Geledi to Abud-Waq. As a result of this step, it triggered a mass-migration of people from the provincial capital Dhusa-Mareb to Abud-Waq.

As the years progressed by, the city grew both in size and prestige. That is not to say that it has not witnessed its fair share of trouble. The city, prior to the civil war, witnessed several border incursions from rebel movements and Ethiopia.

Nevertheless, Abud-Waq managed to be one the very few cities that managed to remain completely undisturbed from the disastrous effects of the civil war that was raging in certain parts of the country.

Since the inception of the civil war, many factions, ranging from SNF to ICU attempted to impose their rule onto the city, to no avail until a movement composed of local scholars took over the lawless city and established an effective and local administration.

After the Ahlu Sunnah movement pacified the city and dismantled the ‘green line’ which cut the city in several clan fiefdoms, rival clans were reconciled, and the former police force was put in to effect.

The city, neglected for the past 20 years, once again saw the potential to play a dynamic role in the region by focusing on all the aspects required for a city to develop.

Both the Diaspora and the actual inhabitants of Abud-Waq have played the blame game against one and other for years. The Abud-Waq Diaspora community justified their lack of response by accusing the residents of Abud-Waq of not being ready for development, whilst the residents of Abud-Waq equally blame the Diaspora for ignoring their pleas. However, all of this seems void now since both parties have no actual ground to rest their recycled argument. Presently, there is no insecurity.

Since peace and security are the main pre-requisites of the development of any city or region, it is thus critical that the Somali Diaspora hailing from this particular region to benefit from this imposed security and re-ignite their efforts to improve the overall quality of life of the region. NGOs should be re-invited and public infrastructure should be rehabilitated to facilitate the growing influx of the city’s population.

Furthermore, a Diaspora committee should be established. A committee that will periodically monitor the situation and will ultimately serve as the serving point between Western-based NGOs and the region.

Finally, Balanballe and Dhabad are two towns that are economically and socially connected to Abud-Waq. Once the city is revamped and the wheels of development are turning, it will automatically serve both these two towns and ultimately the greater region.

[CoolPoisons]

good article by Warsame101

[Xamud.]

Warsame wrote this what`s the population of Cabud Waaq?

[snoop12]

hmmm

[CoolPoisons]

Warsame wrote this what`s the population of Cabud Waaq?

its now 100,000. Galkayo's 120,000


Abudwaq's the biggest city in Galgadud laakin runta u sheegay. Abduwaq's not that old but has more population than the old cities

http://www.fsausomali.org/uploads/Other/188.pdf

[CoolPoisons]

snoop why U acting like Ur from Abudwaq

[snoop12]

Cool

i was told by a RSH lady that i was Rer Cabudwaaq, i tried to explain im not but she would not listen

[CoolPoisons]

waraa say anything but keep the Royal Rer Siyad Husein ladies out of Ur mouth

[snoop12]

coolcaaq, maskiinyahow bah hawiyo, ma wali baad sheegataa RSH



sidee baa Rer Cabudwaaq u sheegan kartaa, wax aad ka taqaantid walaalnimo ama darisnimo ma jiraan i doubt you are RSH, your probably Rer Ugas Sharmaake

[CoolPoisons]

coolcaaq, maskiinyahow bah hawiyo, ma wali baad sheegataa RSH



sidee baa Rer Cabudwaaq u sheegan kartaa, wax aad ka taqaantid walaalnimo ama darisnimo ma jiraan i doubt you are RSH, your probably Rer Ugas Sharmaake

kan horta mar mar wiil fiyow ayuu iska dhigaya marmarna nin aan Marehan. Waryaa, waxaan ahay ninkii ku dherbaxay if Rer Dalal ever made noise.

if I was the Royal Rer Ugas Shermake, do U think I would i hide U dumbass. I'm half Rer Ugas Shermake. way ii dhaleen and im proud of that laakin adigaa, oo markasta ku haysid, Rer Dalal waa waxaan, Rer Dalal waa saas.

im not gonna diss U further cause its ramadan but waa ino after ramadan.

[snoop12]

Lol

Coolcaaq the royal toilet war dhocil miyaad tahay?, RSH baad sheegatey islamarkana Rer Sharmaake Diini baa ku faaneesa

Rer Sharmaake Diini anaga Ugaasnimada ka qaadney Khalif Gowrac oo Ugaasnimada laga dacay baa loo cilin.

RSH oo Rer Dalal karbaashey halgee baa lagu arkey war ilmaha Alahmagan Dalal baa idin ka adag, Rer gob dabeyahow maad isku xishooti

if you werent "ina Gob-dhabey" i would Karbaash you, but fortunately for you, your Bah diini

[Cumar-Labasuul]

http://www.fsausomali.org/uploads/Other/188.pdf

Is this an estimate or was this an old census, coz if it is How is it that Marka is 300,000 and Kismayo is 86,000 and Bosaso is 93,000. Also I knew that the southern towns were heavily populated but I didn't know that they were all in the 100 thousands.

As for this topic is cabudwaaq the youngest city in Somalia and what are the oldest cities in Somalia - I know that in waqooyi saylac, berbera and bulaxar have long history and in the south mogdishu has long history, so what other cities date back far in time.

[CoolPoisons]

snoop12 wait after ramadan

Omar Lasbul, Bardhere and Luq are 1 of the oldest somali cities. Dhusamareb, Kismayo, Marka, Beledweyne, Baidoa are all old cities.

Somalida are Rer Gura yacni waa nomads, they never settled in big cities. they always moved. Marehan lived in Harar ila Berbera 500 years ago hadana we live in Jubaland. Taas waxay muujinaysa that clans move alot.

population ka hadleysid waa refugees. Marka has refugees from Mogadishu sida Rer Hamarka iyo minoritiga. Afgoye also has alot of refugee camps. Kismayo's still 3rd largest city.

Teda kale, somalida big up numbers way too high.

Miami in America's 500,000 population and this is the satelite of miami which not even 1 city of somalia come close to

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/7362/miamii.jpg

[Cumar-Labasuul]

Omar Lasbul, Bardhere and Luq are 1 of the oldest somali cities. Dhusamareb, Kismayo, Marka, Beledweyne, Baidoa are all old cities.

It's funny because saylac is one of the oldest cities however now it is almost a ghost town, whereas Hargeysa is a relatively new city maybe about 120 - 150 yrs old and is the second largest city after Mogdishu.

Somalida are Rer Gura yacni waa nomads, they never settled in big cities. they always moved. Marehan lived in Harar ila Berbera 500 years ago hadana we live in Jubaland. Taas waxay muujinaysa that clans move alot.

I've noticed that Somalis mostly moved to greener pastures and more water, which is why the most populated regions in somalia are along the jubba and shabbelle rivers

population ka hadleysid waa refugees. Marka has refugees from Mogadishu sida Rer Hamarka iyo minoritiga. Afgoye also has alot of refugee camps. Kismayo's still 3rd largest city.

War mostly does that, there are some tuulos near jigjiga like harta sheikh which were very small in numbers but due to war and refugees they have more than multiplied in numbers

Teda kale, somalida big up numbers way too high.
Miami in America's 500,000 population and this is the satelite of miami which not even 1 city of somalia come close to
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/7362/miamii.jpg

Your probably right lakiin if bangladesh which is a smaller country than somalia can have a population of over 200 million, then maybe we might not be so small in numbers. Anyway we can never know unless we have a census, however until that day we can claim we have a bigger population than china if we want

[Xamud.]

Warsame wrote this what`s the population of Cabud Waaq?

its now 100,000. Galkayo's 120,000


Abudwaq's the biggest city in Galgadud laakin runta u sheegay. Abduwaq's not that old but has more population than the old cities

http://www.fsausomali.org/uploads/Other/188.pdf

Yeah Gaalkacyo is probably 120-000 or abit more 150.000 max.


Fsausomali is bullshidh, kulaha the entire Goldogob region waxa dagaan 45.000