Garbahaarreey

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Garbahaarey is the capital of Gedo, the second largest and second most populated region (gobolka) of Somalia. The Population is roughly 43,000 and the inhabitants are of the Marehan clan.

Maj. General Mohamed Siyad Barre, Somalia's longest-serving president, claimed Garbahaarrey as his birthplace in order to get a job in the Italian colonial police force.[1] The president's body was buried in Garbahaarey following his death in Nigeria in 1995.

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  1. ^ David D. Laitin and Said S. Samatar, Somalia: Nation in Search of a State (Boulder: Westview Press 1987), p. 79
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