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	Hydropolitics in the Horn of Africa
		The Shabelle and Jubba River Basins are international river basins in the Horn of Africa occupied by Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.
		The river does not normally enter the Indian Ocean, but disappears into a depression area, where it is finally lost in the sand in southern Somalia near the town of Jilib, not far from the Jubba river.
		The Shabelle and the Jubba River Basin in the Horn of Africa.
	www.somwat.com /hydropolitics.html (7538 words)

	Jubba - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Jubba, river that rises in the highlands of south central Ethiopia and flows 1,660 km (1,030 mi) to the Indian Ocean coast in Somalia.
		The Juba or Jubba River (Somali : Jubba ; Italian : Giuba) is a river in southern Somalia.
		Jubba is an Indian dress for men, a piece of clothing for the trunk of the body.
	encarta.msn.com /Jubba.html (153 words)

	Jubba River - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Juba or Jubba River (Somali: Jubba; Italian: Giuba) is a river in southern Somalia.
		It begins at the border with Ethiopia where the Dawa and Gebele rivers meet, and flows directly south to the Indian Ocean.
		The river gives its name to the Somali administrative regions of Middle Juba and Lower Juba as well as to the larger historical region of Jubaland.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Juba_River (196 words)

	AllRefer.com - Jubba, river, Africa, Africa (African Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Giuba, river, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) long, formed at the Ethiopia–Somalia border, E Africa, by the confluence of the Dawa and Genale rivers, both of which rise in the highlands of S Ethiopia.
		The Jubba River meanders S through SW Somalia to the Indian Ocean near Kismayo.
		The valley is part of the nation's chief agricultural region, and the river is extensively used for irrigation.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/Jubba.html (197 words)

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		The term Bantu itself refers to the ancestors of the Somali Bantu who were brought during the 18th and 19th centuries as slaves from Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Malawi.
		At the turn of the 20th century marked by the abolition of slavery, the ancestors of the current Somali Bantu settled in the banks of the uninhabited Jubba river Valley and along the Shabelle River Valley where they formed independent farming villages.
		Most of the Somali Bantu living in Lewiston were farmers and artisans in the small villages and towns along the Middle Jubba River that were destroyed during the war.
	sbcmaa.org /history.html (241 words)

	Action By Churches Together
		ACT member agencies are targeting flood victims in the Gedo and Middle Jubba Regions which are suffering the consequences of severe rains and flooding of the Jubba and Shebelle rivers.
		All the 25 villages between Boa and Jubba River are covered by water and mud.
		The Jubba River is usually 500 meters wide at this point, but has increased to 40 kilometers.
	act-intl.org /news/dt_1997-99/DTSO2.HTML (1386 words)

	Jubaland
		Jubaland (also Jubbaland, Trans-Juba, It: Oltre Giuba) is the southwesternmost part of Somalia, on the far side of the Jubba River[?] (thus the "trans-" name), bordering on Kenya.
		Principal city is Kismayu[?], on the coast near the mouth of the Jubba.
		Originally Jubaland was part of the British colony of Kenya, but was ceded to Italy June 29, 1925, purportedly as a reward for joining the Allies in World War I.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ol/Oltre_Giuba.html (249 words)

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		The Jubba River flooding in Badera District of Gedo region still continue to cause great devastation to the farmers along the river.
		The situation was exacerbated by the weak river embankments as well as heavy torrential rains from the Ethiopian highlands that has caused the River to burst, Moreover, from luck of professional methods of good farming and poor assistances either from internal and external sources.
		In conclusion, the Jubba River which always has the characteristics or the tendency of causing definite floodings in almost all seasonal rains in Bardera Districts and its outskirt settlements, also seem to have a great impact on the overall settlements a long the Riverine of Gedo region Somalia.
	alldalka.com /page2_copy(293).htm (267 words)

	Somalia TOPOGRAPHY
		South and west of this area, extending to the Shabeelle River, lies a plateau whose maximum elevation is 685 m (2,250 ft).
		The region between the Juba and Shabeelle rivers is low agricultural land, and the area that extends southwest of the Jubba River to Kenya is low pastureland.
		The Jubba and Shabeelle rivers originate in Ethiopia and flow toward the Indian Ocean.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Africa/Somalia-TOPOGRAPHY.html (155 words)

	MarkaCadey.Net: Somalia - Population
		The areas of greatest rural density were the settled zones adjacent to the Jubba and Shabeelle rivers, a few places between them, and several small areas in the northern highlands.
		The distribution of town and villages in the agricultural areas of the Jubba and Shabeelle rivers is related in part to the development of market centers by the sedentary population.
		An example is the large town of Baardheere, on the Jubba River in the Gedo Region, which evolved from a jamaa founded in 1819.
	www.markacadey.net /mcn/history/somalia/somalia-population.htm (1502 words)

	Shebelle River at AllExperts
		Most years the river dries up near the mouth of the Jubba River, while in seasons of heavy rainfall the river actually reaches the Jubba and thus the Indian Ocean.
		In the past, the area of Shebelle River was very affected by tsetse, but it seems now to be eradicated at least in some parts of the Shebelle valley.
		The source of the Shebelle River is venerated by both the Arsi Oromo and the Sidamo people.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/sh/shebelle_river.htm (437 words)

	The Rivers and Drainage Of Somalia
		In the north,a scrub-covered, semiarid, and generally drab area, known as the guban (scrub land), is characterised by broad, shallow watercourses that are beds of dry sand except in the rainy seasons.
		Southward of the Karkaar mountains the land descends to an elevated plateau devoid of perennial rivers.
		The river is perennial only to a point southwest of Mogadishu; thereafter it consists of swampy areas and dry reaches and is finally lost in the sand east of Jilib, not far from the Jubba River.
	www.geography-site.co.uk /pages/countries/drainage/somalia_drainage.html (315 words)

	Welcome banadir.com
		Floods continue raging with the rivers of Shabelleh and Jubba bursting their banks, devastating entire villages and farmlands in southern Somalia.
		Jubba River, the largest in Somalia, has inundated more than 40 square kilometers between the towns of Jilib and Jamama of Middle and Lower Jubba regions.
		The floods from Jubba River have already caused serious economic setback for the southern port city of Kismayu, 500 kilometers south of Mogadishu, after the flood waters cut off the road linking the capital to Kismayu.
	www.banadir.com /continue.htm (291 words)

	Somalia: Hundreds of families flee floods in Gedo province
		Jubba river floods forced hundreds of families to flee villages in Gedo province, southern Somalia.
		Residents in Luq district in Gedo province fear that the two largest rivers in Somalia Shabelle and Jubba rivers to integrate and trigger widespread floods that might claim the lives of many people and cause the destruction of properties.
		The UIC committee is in Kamsuma and Jilib districts in Lower and Middle Jubba provinces, supplying relief aid transported from the capital Mogadishu to the needy survivors.
	www.shabelle.net /news/ne1639.htm (286 words)

	SOMALIA: IRIN special focus on southern Somalia 1999.2.2
		Even though they farm up to the Jubba's banks, their crops are still mainly rainfed or flood recession, lift irrigation being a rarity in comparison with the gravity irrigation of the Shebelle.
		River banks and dykes along the Jubba, as well as the Shebelle, are ever more prone to bursting due to lack of maintenance this decade.
		Militia from the river's west bank looted and burned Ormalle village on 15 January in retaliation for the killing of one of their own, whom the Bantus alleged had terrorised them for years.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Hornet/irin_2299.html (3098 words)

	Somalia - Terrain, Vegetation, and Drainage
		Southward the mountains descend, often in scarped ledges, to an elevated plateau devoid of perennial rivers.
		The region encompassing the Shabeelle and Jubba rivers is relatively well watered and constitutes the country's most arable zone.
		Other vegetation includes plants and grasses found in the swamps into which the Shabeelle River empties most of the year and in other large swamps in the course of the lower Jubba River.
	countrystudies.us /somalia/35.htm (1250 words)

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		By 1840, about 60,000 were established in the lower Jubba River valley.
		The majority of Gosha are descendants of freed or escaped slaves from the Shabeelle Valley who moved south to established free farming colonies in the 19th century.
		There is some evidence that there were free Bantu people already settled in the lower Jubba River area when the slaves from the north came.
	www.jiimonet.com /gosha/profile.htm (827 words)

	Gosha People Profile
		The Gosha live in the Jubba Valley of Somalia with perhaps as many as 20,000 living in Mandera District of Kenya.
		The majority of Gosha are descendants of freed or escaped slaves from the Shabeelle Valley who moved south to established free farming colonies in the 19th century.
		There is some evidence that there were free Bantu people already settled in the lower Jubba River area when the slaves from the north came.
	www.orvillejenkins.com /profiles/gosha.html (1045 words)

	Gedo - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Gedo region is fertile land, with two rivers Dawa and Juba.
		Dawa river runs on the border between Ethiopia and Gedo region Dolow town sits on Dawa's fertile river Banks.
		Juba river starts from Luq, then follows to Burdubo, Bardera then to Bu'aale and Jilib of Middle Juba region.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Gedo (628 words)

	NystromNet
		The valley of the Sava is known for its fertile soil.
		The river is a major transportation route, and the region around the river is densely populated.
		Draw a star on the west bank of the Connecticut River 20 miles from the Massachusetts border, where a smaller river flows into the Connecticut River from the east.
	www.nystromnet.com /index.cfm?fa=maps.main (1296 words)

	Action By Churches Together
		ACT member agencies are targeting flood victims in the Gedo and Middle Jubba Regions which are suffering the consequences of severe rains and flooding of the Jubba and Shebelle rivers.
		All the 25 villages between Boa and Jubba River are covered by water and mud.
		The Jubba River is usually 500 meters wide at this point, but has increased to 40 kilometers.
	www.act-intl.org /news/dt_1997-99/DTSO2.HTML (1386 words)

	Gosha People Profile
		The Gosha live in the Jubba Valley of Somalia with perhaps as many as 20,000 living in Mandera District of Kenya.
		Slaves escaped from the upper Shabeelle River area as they could, south to the lower Jubba area.
		By 1900, about 40,000 were established in the lower Jubba River valley.
	orvillejenkins.com /profiles/gosha.html (1045 words)

	Somalia Country Study - The Contemporary Operational Environment (COE)
		On the plain, flanking the rivers, are numerous depressions called descecks, which fill with water during the rainy season and during floods.
		The river is fordable in places during the other months when the low water period prevails.
		The terrain directly adjacent to the river is relatively flat, although the terrain rises rapidly to the north.
	www.strategypage.com /articles/operationenduringfreedom/chap4.asp (6332 words)

	MarkaCadey.Net - Somalia Consolidation of Colonial Rule
		The Italians intended to plant a colony of settlers and commercial entrepreneurs in the region between the Shabeelle and Jubba rivers in southern Somalia.
		The motivation was threefold: to "relieve population pressure at home," to offer the "civilizing Roman mission" to the Somalis, and to increase Italian prestige through overseas colonization.
		Sugarcane fields in Giohar and numerous banana plantations around the town of Jannaale on the Shabeelle River, and at the southern mouth of the Jubba River near Chisimayu, helped transform southern Somalia's economy.
	www.markacadey.net /mcn/history/somalia-consolidation.htm (292 words)

	Flood Hits Southern Somalia
		An area of more than 40 square kilometers between the towns of Jilib and Jamama of Middle and Lower Jubba regions is now being inundated as the flood from the Jubba river have merged those of the rains.
		The floods from Jubba River have caused heavy damages to the Southern port town of Kismaio, 500 Km South of Mogadishu, by cutting the road linking the capital to Kismaio.
		The central region of Hiran is not now any better as the Shabelleh River has flooded into two of its main residential quarters inside the regional capital, Beletuein.
	www.somaliawatch.org /Archivemay/000521101.htm (479 words)

	Contemporary Conflicts
		The Jubba flows south from the Ethiopian highlands, a ribbon of blue and green in a flat reddish plain.
		Before Somalia’s collapse in the late 1980s, the floodplains were farmed by the Gabwing, a small clan who had the misfortune to live next to the home district of the president, Siad Barre, whose Marehan clansmen greedily eyed the fertile alluvial land.
		Gabwing farmers had gathered on the land protected by the meanders of the river and were farming maize and tomatoes.
	conconflicts.ssrc.org /hornofafrica/chasing_ghosts (3708 words)

	Africa Travel » Terrain, Vegetation, and Drainage
		Southward the mountains descend, often in scarped ledges, to an elevated plateau devoid of perennial rivers.
		The river is perennial only to a point southwest of Mogadishu; thereafter it consists of swampy areas and dry reaches and is finally lost in the sand east of Jilib, not far from the Jubba River.
		The region encompassing the Shabeelle and Jubba rivers is relatively well watered and constitutes the country’s most arable zone.
	africa.travel-chronicle.com /africa-travel/2029/terrain-vegetation-and-drainage (1487 words)

	Hotspots Revisited
		The Tana River mangabey and Tana River red colobus are both restricted to the Tana River region in Kenya.
		2003a) and southern Tanzania (from the Rufiji River southwards) (Milledge and Kaale 2003).
		in the Jubba River of Somalia, 787 km
	www.biodiversityscience.org /publications/hotspots/CoastalForestsofEasternafrica.html (5165 words)

	Gosha People Profile
		The Gosha live in the Jubba Valley of Somalia with about 2,400 living in Mandera District of Kenya.
		Slaves escaped from the upper Shabeelle River area as they could, south to the lower Jubba area.
		By 1900, about 40,000 were established in the lower Jubba River valley.
	endor.hsutx.edu /~obiwan/profiles/gosha.html (1064 words)

	The Digil-Rahawiin People of Somalia
		Location: The Maay-speaking peoples are found primarily in the Lower Jubba Valley of central Somalia, between the Shabeelle and Jubba Rivers and south of the Jubba River.
		However, many different clans and tribes are interspersed in the inter-River area (between the Shabeelle and Jubba Rivers), and to the southwest of the Jubba.
		The Gosha are a mixed group of peoples living in the Lower Jubba Valley, mostly descendants from former Bantu slaves.
	orvillejenkins.com /profiles/digilrah.html (1424 words)

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	www.dartmouth.edu /~floods/Archives/2000sum.xls (726 words)

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