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2, November, 2005.

Read on and on about Abudwak district.  

The district of Abudwak is located in northwest of Galgadud region in central Somalia, it has border with the Somali region of Ethiopia. The population of the district is roughly around 220,000 including surrounding villages, most of these people are pastoralists herding camels, cattle and goats. 

In 1991, thousands of IDPS fleeing ethnic wartime in Mogadishu and other parts of Somalia returned to the district adding economic burden to an already impoverished population, in addition to that, since there is no port and airfields to import and export economically, the district depends on livestock and small-scale business. Moreover, the communicating system is rapidly developing, for example, telecommunications include –Somtel, Nation link, Hurmuud and Telecom which carry out good service and accountability for the community. Nowadays they are even providing wireless mobile phones with better transmission. 

That is pretty much all I knew about them. The district has five well-maintained boreholes, two health posts, two schools which enroll 1200 students up to grade 8. The sanitation and proper health care remained untouched. 

Besides this progress our district experienced difficult times for the last ten years. Some of the international community who come here only to help us met bad treatment and insecurity we are sorry and apologizing all previous mistakes. 

Administratively, the district is ruled by an elected council of elders, nevertheless    the lives of the people in the district depend on their relatives who are themselves refugees in the Diaspora, most of these dependents are unaware what life is like and expend all means of life by chewing –useless Mira-(Qad) from Kenya and that from Ethiopia –Hareeri- 

I will write more about Qad next time if insha’Allaah. 

Thanks a million to Allaah   .SWT.   

Cabdi Sacdi Jaamac

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