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	Tropas etíopes entran en la ciudad somalí de Baidoa \| elmundo.es
		MOGADISCIO.- Varios testigos de la ciudad somalí de Baidoa han confirmado que tropas de Etiopía han llegado a esa localidad, lo que puede representar un serio peligro para el equilibrio de una de las regiones más vulnerables de África.
		La presencia de las tropas etíopes en Baidoa, sede del Gobierno de transición de Somalia, fue confirmada telefónicamente por siete habitantes de la ciudad, situada a 245 kilómetros al noroeste de Mogadiscio.
		Los testigos dijeron que, coincidiendo con la llegada de las tropas etíopes a Baidoa, muchos habitantes se preparan para abandonar la ciudad, que se había convertido en refugio de muchos somalíes después de varios meses de combates en Mogadiscio.
	www.elmundo.es /elmundo/2006/07/20/internacional/1153415603.html (636 words)

	Baidoa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baidoa (Somali: Baydhabo) is a city in south-central Somalia.
		The Transitional Federal Government, of which Shatigudud and Madobe are ministers, wishes to move a joint national capital from Mogadishu to Baidoa and Jowhar.
		However, the recent alleged deployment of 500 troops from Ethiopia to Baidoa is may stymie the ICU's ambitions for the city, as it is unlikely that the ICU would be able to prevail against regular forces in the open, desert topography of the city.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baidoa (376 words)

	Wardheernews Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The governor of Baidoa, Muhammad Ali Qalinle, said forces loyal to former Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA) chairman Hassan Muhammed Nur Shatigudud, and former RRA first deputy chairman Shaykh Adan Madobe, both ministers in the Somali transitional government, had been mobilised in an area 76 km west of the town.
		Baidoa was in late May the scene of fierce fighting between factions of the RRA, which controls much of the regions of Bay and Bakool in southwestern Somalia.
		The conflict in Baidoa is rooted in a power struggle within the senior ranks of the RRA that resulted in a split in 2001.
	www.wardheernews.com /news/July/21_baidawa.htm (305 words)

	Rejecting Baidoa: The Height of Hypocrisy
		The Speaker as well as the President’s choice of Baidoa to be the venue of the first parliamentary session on a Somalian soil since its birth is proper, befitting and wise.
		Baidoa, given its proximity to the camps of both factions is easily accessible to members of parliament.
		The proposed parliamentary session in Baidoa can be concluded peacefully, in success and it could pave the road for the establishment of the long awaited functioning authority in the country if the security of Baidoa is jointly undertaken by the TFG, the peoples of adjoining regions and the district authority presently in charge.
	www.hiiraan.com /op/2006/jan/Rashid_Yahye_Ali310106.html (1261 words)

	UNHCR - Somalia: Information on the situation in Baidoa and El Wak from 1991 to 1993, and in El Wak in 1996
		Baidoa is the capital of the Bay Region, which is west of the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
		Various sources indicate that the Rahenwein were predominant in the Baidoa area prior to the civil conflict in Somalia (EU Aug. 1995; Magna Carta Maps 1993; Gilkes Sept. 1994, 141).
		Baidoa remained a stronghold of the Rahenwein, the SDM was split along factional lines between those who supported the alliance with Aidid, and those who were aligned with Aidid's Hawiye-Abgal opponent Ali Mahdi, who headed up the Somali Salvation Alliance (SSA) (ibid.
	www.unhcr.org /home/RSDCOI/3ae6abb12e.html (1161 words)

	Middle East Online
		At the same time, it has sparked an economic boom of sorts in Baidoa, about 250 kilometres (150 miles) west of Mogadishu, which is now badly affected by a devastating drought and woefully unprepared to host parliament.
		Baidoa's population has swelled from 50,000 to as many as 80,000 as drought-affected villagers from the surrounding countryside have flocked to the town for food and water, overwhelming the limited infrastructure.
		An AFP correspondent who travelled to Baidoa with Adan found the town awash in frenzied building and renovation with the sounds of hammering and heavy machinery filling the air.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=15691 (672 words)

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		Baidoa, northwest of Mogadishu, is the main town of the fertile Juba River valley in this largely arid Horn of Africa nation.
		Aidid's men were still holding Baidoa -- known as the "city of death" during a disastrous famine in the early 1990s -- but the Rahanwein Resistance Army continued harassing attacks.
		Galal said 30 of Aidid's faction's militiamen were killed four days ago in ambush near Hoddur, close to Baidoa, and that their situation was critical in both towns, with roads mined, fuel and ammunition short and supply lines vulnerable.
	www.netnomad.com /aydiidbaidoa.html (482 words)

	Population-Based Mortality Assessment -- Baidoa and Afgoi, Somalia, 1992
		Baidoa is a regional center of the Bay Region of Somalia.
		In early August 1992, the estimated population of Baidoa was 37,000 persons; by November 20, the town population had decreased to an estimated 21,000.
		Second, the Baidoa survey characterized the mortality history only of displaced persons, and the Afgoi survey results may not have characterized all sections of the town because the survey was interrupted.
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00018099.htm (1619 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Somalia: A night-time curfew imposed in Baidoa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Baidoa 22 March, 06 (Sh.M.Network) A nighttime curfew has been imposed in Baidoa city the interim capital of Somali government.
		Members of the Bay and Bakol Peace commission which was announced on the eve of the Somali parliament sessions opened in Baidoa told Shabelle that the curfew starts after 10:00-pm at the night time until the sunrise, but they haven’t declared the limited time when the curfew will end.
		The curfew came amid tensions in Baidoa city where a famous businessman was killed in the central of the city last week.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6N5JR4?OpenDocument (167 words)

	Somalia Looks To Make Fresh Start
		BAIDOA, Somalia –– At a derelict military base in Baidoa, a beheaded statue of a soldier stands guard next to a toothless statue of a lion.
		This "city of death," as it became known during Somalia's civil war, with its vandalized statues and young men in pickup trucks tricked out with anti-aircraft guns, is about to become the seat of the country's new government – the first in a decade.
		But in Baidoa, people have only to walk down the streets to sample the fruits of peace: a central market brimming with goods ranging from secondhand shoes to homemade candy; entrepreneurs producing electricity for sale with small generators; four primary schools refurbished by UNICEF.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/20001002/aponline023850_000.htm (635 words)

	Clashes erupt in Somali govt seat, 6 dead: reports - Boston.com
		At least six people were killed on Friday in the town of Baidoa in fighting between local militiamen and bodyguards of Somalia's interim president, local journalists said.
		President Abdullahi Yusuf was not present during the clash, they said, adding that the fighting erupted after a dispute at a checkpoint in the town, seat of the weak interim administration.
		The interim administration, based in Baidoa since February, is too weak to enter the capital.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/06/09/clashes_erupt_in_somali_govt_seat_6_dead_reports (313 words)

	Somali Lawmakers Make Baidoa Temporary Capital
		Somalia's parliament has voted to move the country's temporary capital to the southern town of Baidoa.
		Somali officials say the government will be based in Baidoa until the official capital, Mogadishu, can be made safe again.
		The interim parliament met in Baidoa as a compromise in February.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-04-23-voa6.cfm (215 words)

	Garowe Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At the height of Somalia’s civil war in the mid-‘90s, Western media dubbed Baidoa the “City of Death” because of the severe drought that had engulfed it.
		As things stand today, Baidoa, and much of Somalia today, faces another famine that has cost the loss of both human and animal life, and continues to degrade the quality of life in what was once Somalia’s breadbasket regions.
		Indeed, none of the TFG members should be welcomed back into their constituent strongholds unless the Baidoa parliamentary session yields positive result that goes beyond their self-serving interests and, for the first time, attains a meaningful outcome with extensive reach from which the entire Somali nation can benefit.
	www.garoweonline.com /2004pro/index.php?id=2887 (1079 words)

	Once a city of death, Baidoa springs to life, business as usual
		Qalinle said the local leadership in Baidoa cannot afford to buy all the weapons in the hands of civilians, but would ask for donors to provide funds to demobilise fighters of the Rahanwein Resistance Army (RRA).
		Abdi Sheikh Abdu said in support of the UN security official's remarks that gunshots in Somalia are not heard only at the time of war, but also when someone shoots in the air if his weapon has not tested for a while, or when celebrating marriage or the birth of a new baby boy.
		Most Baidoa leaders accuse the Mogadishu-based Somali Transitional National Government (TNG) of sending infiltrators "to undermine peace that has been achieved after very hard work," but the TNG has rejected the claim on several occasions.
	www.namibian.com.na /2002/june/africa/026AE906D4.html (614 words)

	IRIN Africa \| Horn of Africa \| Somalia \| SOMALIA: Residents flee fighting near Baidoa \| Conflict \| Breaking News
		Michel led an EC delegation to Baidoa, where the TFG is based, for talks with President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi.
		Michel's spokesman, Amadeu Altafaj, said from Baidoa that Michel was "deeply concerned about the current escalation of violence, its effects on civilians and its impact on the whole Horn of Africa region".
		On the talks in Baidoa, he added: "They were positive towards the initiative of Commissioner Michel of a memorandum establishing a ceasefire and resumption of talks.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=56798&SelectRegion=Horn_of_Africa (813 words)

	Africast Global Africa Network- News
		The 275-member assembly expects to sit in the conflict-scarred town of Baidoa, about 250 kilometres west of Mogadishu, on Sunday for the landmark session to discuss the future of the country's splintered government.
		Years of fighting and neglect have taken their toll on Baidoa its one paved street is ridden with potholes and dirt sidestreets are littered with trash.
		The drought that has hit the region has caused the town's population to swell from 50,000 to as many as 80,000 as people abandon their parched villages in search of food and water.
	news.africast.com /africastv/article.php?newsID=57949 (454 words)

	SomaliAnarchy :: View topic - 'Government Ministers' Battle Over Somali Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		BAIDOA, Somalia - Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - Accounts report between 11 and 15 militiamen killed so far in fighting in the southern Somali town of Baidoa, 125 miles northwest of Mogadishu.
		Shatigudud has arrived in Baidoa with four other TNG 'MP''s, presumably claiming to be in his capacity as a government minister, in a supposed effort to "negotiate peace" with his own rival.
		The TNG is a group of warlords and exiled bureaucrats from the exiled regime of former Marxist dictator Maxamed Siyaad Bare.
	www.somalianarchy.com /viewtopic.php?p=125 (408 words)

	'City of Death' Has Unusual Guest: Hope - New York Times
		BAIDOA, Somalia, April 29 — It can be hard to shed a nickname after it has caught on, especially one as potent as "city of death."
		There was little of that 14 years ago, when Baidoa's streets were lined with the skeletal bodies of the dead and the only orphanage was losing 10 to 15 children a day to hunger.
		Baidoa's dismal past hung heavy in the air on Saturday, as scores of Somali leaders gathered in a food warehouse converted into the country's Parliament building.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/05/01/world/africa/01somalia.html?ex=1304136000&en=dbc9e660d1cf2057&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (1129 words)

	The Civil War and the Baidoa Famine 1991
		Famine in Baidoa was neither the result of natural or environmental causes, nor the result of the civil war.
		Baidoa is the richest city in the country and the capital of the most productive agricultural region, and did not experience the level of conflict that was the fate of Mogadishu, Belet Weyn and Kismayu.How then could Reewin suffering be explained, when they had no part in the power struggle?
		During my interviews in 1992-94, several elders in Baidoa have quoted Omar Jees, the leader of the SPM, which represents the Ogaden clan of the Darood, addressing his followers, after a brief occupation of Baidoa by the SPM: 'Dhul baan idiin qabaney hadii aad dhacasan waydaan waa idinka iyo nacasnimadina: he said.
	www.arlaadinet.com /D&MHistory/SomaliHistory/civil_war_and_the_baidoa_famine_.htm (756 words)

	America's Outpost in RRA's Baidoa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Baidoa, the stronghold of the Rahanwein Resistance Army (RRA)
		Glenn Warren, the diplomat at the U.S. embassy in Kenya in charge of Somalia, is not the only American to pay regular visits to Baidoa (ION 982), the stronghold of the Rahanwein Resistance Army (RRA) of Hassam Mohamed Nur "Shatigadud" (red shirt).
		Each time, the visit to Baidoa was a brief one of but a few hours made aboard a charter plane rented in Nairobi.
	www.somaliawatch.org /archivemar02/020324101.htm (266 words)

	South-West Somalia (Somalia)
		The meeting, which had been in session in Baidoa, the capital of Bay Region, 240 km southwest of Mogadishu, since 22 March, elected Colonel Hasan Muhammad Nur Shatigadud, the chairman of the RRA, as president on Sunday.
		Baidoa will be the capital of the new state.
		However, according to this source, the idea that the new president might appoint some members of the SRRC to his cabinet was not being well received.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/so-sws.html (760 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Ethiopian troops on Somali soil
		But he emphasised that the UIC was not intending to attack Baidoa or Ethiopia as it had nothing to gain from doing so.
		Mr Bereket told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that "Ethiopia is in a position to defend itself to ensure the stability of the Horn of Africa".
		The Islamists insist that an attack on Baidoa was never planned and have withdrawn their militia from Burhakaba, where they had advanced on Wednesday.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/5198338.stm (743 words)

	Renewed fighting in Somalia over relocation plans
		A militia led by a Somali warlord and lawmaker opposed to plans by the new government to establish itself in the town of Baidoa, took control of the southwestern trading centre yesterday, throwing the peace process into question.
		The fighting in Baidoa was between a clan faction allied to neighbouring Ethiopia, commanded by Hassan Mohamed Nur Shargudud, and a group led by Mohamed Ibrahim Habsadeh.
		After heavy fighting at dawn, Habsadeh’s forces were in control of Baidoa, 300 kilometres northwest of Mogadishu, by midday.
	www.eastandard.net /archives/cm/print/news.php?articleid=16587 (331 words)

	CARE Aided US Agents During Somalian Intervention
		She and three other women on CARE Australia's staff were evacuated from Baidoa a week before the UN's arrival in Somalia, as the local clan wars became increasingly violent.
		The Baidoa military arrival was part of Operation Restore Hope - a UN-sanctioned operation to open roads and towns devastated by two years of fighting, so that international relief aid could reach an estimated 2million Somalis in danger of dying of starvation within two months.
		The officers were talking with the UN forces, in their combat helicopters, tanks, armoured cars and marching men, who were on the outskirts of Baidoa ready to enter the town before dawn.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines/020800-03.htm (1640 words)

	BakuTODAY.net - Somali parliament holds first session on home ground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But last month, under heavy international pressure, the two camps agreed on Baidoa as the compromise venue to try to solve disagreements that have scuppered the restoration of authority.
		Baidoa, a war-scarred outpost with limited infrastructure and home to some 80,000 people, is considered relatively safer than Mogadishu, although fighting broke out in March last year between government factions and allied militias.
		Somalia has been without a functioning central government for nearly 15 years and Yusuf's government is the latest in more than a dozen attempts to restore stability to a nation that has been wracked by warlord-fuelled violence since the 1991 ouster of strongman Mohamad Siad Barre.
	www.bakutoday.net /view.php?d=17018 (611 words)

	CNN.com - 'City of death' symbolizes the hopes of war-weary Somalia - October 2, 2000
		BAIDOA, Somalia (AP) -- At a derelict military base in Baidoa, a beheaded statue of a soldier stands guard next to a toothless statue of a lion.
		This "city of death," as it became known during Somalia's civil war, with its vandalized statues and young men in pickup trucks tricked out with anti-aircraft guns, is about to become the seat of the country's new government -- the first in a decade.
		Baidoa lies 110 miles (180 kilometers) northwest of the official capital, Mogadishu.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/africa/10/02/somalia.newbeginning.ap (796 words)

	SomaliNet News: Somalia: Leaders ready for Baidoa Parliamentary Meeting : SomaliNet > Somali > Somalia and Somalinad
		The February 26th meeting is due to take place in Baidoa town, 240 km southwest of the capital, Mogadishu.
		Nur said President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and Prime Minister Ali Muhammad Gedi were expected in Baidoa on Saturday.
		At a three-day meeting in Yemen in early January, Yusuf and Aden agreed to convene the first session of parliament inside Somalia within 30 days.
	somalinet.com /news/world/English/1878 (277 words)

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