Lughaya District

Lughaya District (Somali: Degmada Lughaya) is a district of the Awdal region in Somaliland.[1] Lughaya District has a total population of 101,104 residents.[2]

Lughaya District

Degmada Lughaya
District
Lughaya district within Awdal, Somaliland
Country Somaliland
RegionAwdal
CapitalLughaya
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)

Demographics

The broader Lughaya District has a total population of 101,104 residents.[3] The district is mainly inhabited by the Mahad 'Ase subclan of the Gadabuursi Dir clan who make up the predominant clan in the district.[4]

Malte Sommerlatte (2000) states:

"In the centre of the study area are the Gadabursi, who extend from the coastal plains around Lughaye, through the Baki and Borama districts into the Ethiopian highlands west of Jijiga."[5]

In the Ruin and Renewal: The story of Somaliland (2004), the author states:

"So too is the boundary of Lughaya district whose predominant (if not exclusive) inhabitants are today Gadabursi."[6]

The FSAU Monthly Food Security Report March (2003) states that the Gadabuursi clan are the main local inhabitants of the Lughaya District whilst Issa pastoralists migrate to the region seasonally from Ethiopia:

"Following discussions with the Issa (from Ethiopia) and Gadabursi (local inhabitants) livestock owners and local leaders in Gerissa, Xariradd, Jidhi, Karuure, Ceel Gal, Zeyla, Lughaye, Kalalwe and Osooli."[7]

There is also a sizeable minority of the Issa subclan of the Dir who mainly inhabit the neighboring Zeila District.[8]

References
  1. Districts of Somaliland, Statoids
  2. "Regions, districts, and their populations: Somaliland 2005 (draft)" (PDF). UNDP. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
  3. "Regions, districts, and their populations: Somalia 2005 (draft)" (PDF). UNDP. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
  4. Ambroso, Guido (August 2002). Pastoral society and transnational refugees: population movements in Somaliland and eastern Ethiopia. UNHCR Brussels. Chart showing the Gadabursi inhabiting the Lughaya district
  5. "An Ecological Assessment of the Coastal Plains of North-Western Somalia (Somaliland)" (PDF). 2000. p. 11. In the centre of the study area are the Gadabursi, who extend from the coastal plains around Lughaye, through the Baki and Borama districts into the Ethiopian highlands west of Jijiga.
  6. "RUIN AND RENEWAL: THE STORY OF SOMALILAND" (HTM). 2004. So too is the boundary of Lughaya district whose predominant (if not exclusive) inhabitants are today Gadabursi.
  7. An FSAU Awdal Situation Analysis focusing on Livestock in the Region (PDF). 2003. p. 6. Retrieved 2020-02-03. Following discussions with the Issa (from Ethiopia) and Gadabursi (local inhabitants) livestock owners and local leaders in Gerissa, Xariradd, Jidhi, Karuure, Ceel Gal, Zeyla, Lughaye, Kalalwe and Osooli.
  8. Ambroso, Guido (August 2002). Pastoral society and transnational refugees: population movements in Somaliland and eastern Ethiopia. UNHCR Brussels.
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