Burao (Somali: Burco) is the capital town in the region of Togdheer in Somalia. Togdheer is a region (gobolka) in Somalia. ...
Like Hargeisa, it was heavily bombed in the 1980s to stop rebels from taking over the northern part of Somalia. Also like the other cities in the northern part of the country, Burao has been rebuilt largely without aid. The city has boomed economically with the money coming in and people from rural area moving in making squatters all over the city. The city has Burao University, one of the only colleges in the country. It also has an airport. Hargeisa Hargeisa (Somali: Hargeysa) is a city in northwestern Somalia; it is also the capital and largest city of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland which was formed in 1991. ... The 1980s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1980 and 1989. ...
Burao's population has more than tripled since 1991, to around 100,000. It is part of the break-away Republic of Somaliland. 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Somaliland (Somali: Soomaaliland) is a former British territory located in the northwest region of Somalia in the Horn of Africa. ...
The people of Burao seem to have learnt from their past predicament: the city has been now enjoying almost nine years of fairly uninterrupted peace; there is also a strong feeling of communal association and a sense of determination on the local population’s part to rebuild the city.
As a result, the city of Burao is now going through an age of Renaissance in her own right, as it is enjoying a sustained period of an unprecedented expansion in its history, in terms of spatial development and intellectual capacity building.
The Mayor of Burao at the time was keen on the idea, as he was fully committed to facilitate the establishment of the new University of Hargeisa campus at Burao.
Burao is the last city under the Somaliland government's authority--beyond it, one enters the rule of the clans.
Their leader in Burao was even obliged to pay blood compensation of a hundred camels to a family who'd lost a son in the battle for Bosaso.
Unemployment in Burao is 95 percent, he said, pointing to the rows and rows of men idly drinking tea by the road and waiting for the sun to go down so they could chew khat, the stimulant shrub that makes life bearable for large numbers of Somalis.
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