Baidoa, Somalia

Somalia

Baidoa, Somalia shares 44 connections with 1125 other places across 11 topics, anchored in government and military history. The city hosted a December 2013 federal convention on Somali state formation and served as the interim seat of the Transitional Federal Government before it relocated to Mogadishu in 2007. During the Ethiopian occupation, al-Shabaab laid siege to Baidoa from July 2008 to January 2009. Its connections reach broadly across the Horn of Africa, with many shared ties to Mogadishu and Ethiopia.