Editing Gedo (section)

==Economy==
The economy mostly depends on livestock and farming, but the Gedo region has strong interregional and international cross-border trade with Kenya and to some extent with Ethiopia. Trade across Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia allowed the Gedo region to be economically stable for the years before the UN intervention and afterward. The 1998 Nordic Fact Finding Mission prepared a report on the Gedo region and found some encouraging economic figures. [[Davidson College]] assistant professor [[Ken Menkhaus]] said that "Traders in Gedo region made more profit than, for instance, those in Hargeisa, in north-western Somalia."<ref>[http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain/opendocpdf.pdf?docid=3ae6a5bd0 Report of the Nordic fact-finding mission to the Gedo region in Somalia]</ref> Trade going through the border between the three countries was ongoing despite the raging civil war in Somalia for much of the 1990.