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Baidoa

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Baidoa or Baidabo (bīdä`b), town (1980 pop. 10,000), capital of Bay region, S central Somalia. Located about 135 mi (220 km) WNW of Mogadishu on the Huddur plateau, Baidoa is a road junction and agricultural trade center. In a compromise move, the town became the seat of the interim government of Somalia in 2006 after the interim president refused to agree to take office in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital. The subsequent rise of an Islamist government in Mogadishu, which then secured control of much of S Somalia, left the weak interim government isolated in Baidoa, dependent on Ethiopian support to survive.


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Monday, Somalia's hardline Shebab militia raided the offices of the United Nations Development Program, the UN Department of Safety and Security and the UN Political Office for Somalia in Baidoa and Wajid hours after they banned their operations on charges that they were "enemies of Islam and Muslims.
Armed men from the al-Shabab group looted a UN compound in Baidoa in south-central Somalia on Monday following the announcement.
SOMALIA: A suicide car bombing killed eight people at a government checkpoint outside Baidoa.
 
 
 
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