Harardhere
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Place details
- Locality
- Harardhere
- Region
- Mudug مدج
- Country
- Soomaaliya الصومال
- Population
- 2,018
- Timezone
- Africa/Mogadishu
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Harardhere
- Settlement.native_name
- هرارديريXarardheere
- Settlement.other_name
- Haradere
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Somalia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Harardhere
- Settlement.leader_title
- Control
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_total
- 65,523
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- IClan_type =Maxamed Cade Sub-Clan of Waesle and Ayr, Saleban, SARUUR Habargidir
- Settlement.timezone
- EAT
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +3
- Settlement.area_code
- +252
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- History
- Demographics
- Notable residents
- References
Harardhere (, ) is a historic town in the Mudug province of Somalia. It is situated in the autonomous Galmudug state and serves as the capital of the Harardhere District.
==History== The town was controlled by the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group al-Shabaab from at least 2012 to 2023. In 2018, a US airstrike killed 60 al-Shabaab fighters at a training camp in a rural area outside the town. On 16 January 2023, the town was recaptured by the Somali Armed Forces.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Harardhere” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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