Baligubadle
Baligubadle
Town in Hawd region, Somaliland
Baligubadle is a town in the southern Maroodi Jeex region of Somaliland.[2] The locality serves as the capital of the Baligubadle District, an administrative subdivision of the Maroodi Jeex region that was created in 1991 after regaining Somaliland independence,[3] and straddles the border with the Somali Region of Ethiopia. The town has approximately 18,000 inhabitants.[4]
The town's inhabitants are mostly pastoralist whereby the local economy is predominantly dependent on livestock trade, however small-scale rain fed farming is also practiced.[5]