Editing Gedo (section)

{{Short description|Region of Somalia}}
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{{Infobox settlement
| name               = Gedo
| native_name        = Gobolka Gedo
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| nickname           = 
| motto              = 
| settlement_type    = [[Administrative divisions of Somalia|Region]]
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| image_map          = Somalia regions map Gedo.svg
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| map_caption        = Location in Somalia
| subdivision_type   = Country
| subdivision_name   = {{flag|Somalia}}
| subdivision_type1  = [[States and regions of Somalia|Regional State]]
| subdivision_name1  = {{flag|Jubaland}}
| seat_type          = Capital
| seat               = [[Garbaharey]]
| government_type    = 
| leader_title       = Governor
| leader_name        = Mohamed Hussein Al-Qaadi
| established_date   = 1974<ref name=Nordic7>{{cite web|title=Report of the Nordic fact-finding mission to the Gedo region in Somalia 15 October – 30 October 1998|access-date=31 March 2020|url = http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/3ae6a5bd0.pdf|page=7}}</ref>
| area_magnitude     = 
| area_total_km2     = 85,000
| population_as_of   = 2019<ref>{{Cite web |title=Somalia: Subdivision and cities |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/somalia/|access-date=2024-02-14 |website=www.citypopulation.de}}</ref>
| population_note    = 
| population_total   = 1,566,300
| population_density_km2 = auto
| timezone           = [[East Africa Time|EAT]]
| utc_offset         = +3
| coordinates        = {{coord|2|26|17|N|41|29|3|E|type:adm1st_region:SO-GE_source:nlwiki|display=inline,title}}
| elevation_m        = 914.4
| elevation_ft       = 3000
| iso_code           = [[ISO 3166-2:SO|SO-GE]]<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:SO | title = ISO 3166 — Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions | publisher = International Organization for Standardization (ISO) | access-date = 3 February 2025}}</ref>
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| blank_name_sec2    = [[Human Development Index|HDI]] (2021)
| blank_info_sec2    = 0.318<ref name="GlobalDataLab">{{cite web|url=https://hdi.globaldatalab.org/areadata/shdi/|title=Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab |website=hdi.globaldatalab.org|access-date=2018-09-13}}</ref><br/>{{color|#500|low}} · [[List of regions of Somalia by Human Development Index|9th of 18]]
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| official_name      = Gedo Region of Somalia
}}

'''Gedo''' ({{langx|so|Gedo}}, {{langx|ymm|Gethy}}, {{langx|ar|جيذو}}, {{langx|it|Ghedo}} or ''Ghedu'') is an administrative region (''[[States and regions of Somalia|gobol]]'') in [[Jubaland]], southern [[Somalia]]. Its regional capital is [[Garbahaarreey]]. The region was formed during 1974<ref name=Nordic7 /> and is bordered by the [[Ogaden]] in [[Ethiopia]], the [[North Eastern Province (Kenya)|North Eastern Province]] in [[Kenya]], and the Somali regions of [[Bakool]], [[Bay, Somalia|Bay]], [[Jubbada Dhexe]] (Middle Juba), and [[Jubbada Hoose]] (Lower Juba) further down east. The southern parts of Gedo, west of the [[Jubba River]], used to be part of the old British Trans-Juba region during half of the seventy years of [[Scramble for Africa|colonial era in Africa]] from 1890 to 1960. The [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[Italy|Italian]]s fought twice over this area.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ceegaag.com/2013/04/05/gudoomiyaha-gobolka-gedo-xuseen-sh-cabdi-farey-oo-nasiib-daro-ku-tilmaamay-sida-uu-sharciga-u-garab-maray-raysalwasaare-saacid/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190406222440/http://www.ceegaag.com/2013/04/05/gudoomiyaha-gobolka-gedo-xuseen-sh-cabdi-farey-oo-nasiib-daro-ku-tilmaamay-sida-uu-sharciga-u-garab-maray-raysalwasaare-saacid/| archive-date = 2019-04-06| title = Gudoomiyaha Gobolka Gedo Xuseen Sh. Cabdi 'Farey' oo nasiib daro ku tilmaamay sida uu sharciga u garab maray Raysalwasaare Saacid {{!}}}} </ref>

The regional capital is [[Garbaharey]].

President [[Siad Barre]]'s forces withdrew to Gedo following the collapse of the [[Somali Democratic Republic]] in the early 1990s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dool |first=Abdullahi |title=Failed States: When Governance Goes Wrong! |date=1998 |publisher=Horn Heritage Publications |isbn=0952524198 |pages=106–107}}</ref> After 1991, the [[Somali National Front]]  [[Omar Haji Mohamed]] held large parts of the region for many years.<ref name="HajiSNF">{{cite web|author=Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada|author-link=Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada|url=https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6aba070.html|title=Somalia: Information on the Somali National Front in Gedo and on Omar Haji Masalle including his clan and subclan|date=1 December 1997}}</ref> In collaboration with the SNF,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Njoku |first=Raphael Chijioke |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RunEEAAAQBAJ |title=The History of Somalia |date=2013-02-20 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-0-313-37858-4 |pages=142–143 |language=en}}</ref> Gedo joined the growing trend of [[Islamic Courts Union|Islamic Courts]] at the start of the [[Somali Civil War]] and local sharia courts succeeded in making [[Luuq District]] one of Somalia's safest areas for much of the 1990s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Elmi |first=Afyare Abdi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R52KQAAACAAJ |title=Understanding the Somalia Conflagration: Identity, Islam and Peacebuilding |date=2010-08-15 |publisher=Pluto Press |isbn=978-0-7453-2974-1 |pages=64 |language=en |quote=Parallel with this first court in Mogadishu, Sheikh Mohamed Haji Yusuf and Sheikh Mohamud A. Nur established a new Islamic court in the Luq district of Gedo region in 1992. This court was more successful than the one attempted in Mogadishu. These scholars succeeded in creating a secure environment in the area, and for a while, from 1992 to 1997, Luq district was the safest area in Somalia.}}</ref> The militant religious group [[al-Itihaad al-Islamiya]] (AIAI) also rose to power in the region later, taking over the city of [[Luuq]] as its headquarters.<ref name="Nordic7" /> The [[Ethiopian National Defence Force]] then entered the area to attack AIAI's bases in 1996. The first democratically elected governor of the administrative region was [[Hussein Farey]], who entered office in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |title=Somalia: Gedo Region Elects a New Governor |url=https://allafrica.com/stories/200804300269.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012043048/http://allafrica.com/stories/200804300269.html |archive-date=2008-10-12 |website=[[allAfrica]] |agency=[[Garowe Online]]}} </ref>