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Dinsoor
Dinsoor (Somali: Diinsoor) is a town in the southwestern Bay region of Somalia. It is the center of the Dinsoor District.
Overview
The settlement was founded in 1805, when a group of nomads constructed a water well near a mountain area called Bug. It is the fourth largest city in the Bay province.
Dinsoor has one local airport, Mecca Boqol. The town also serves as a regional center for business and trade. It is the only district in Bay that shares borders with all of the other districts in the region.
Demographics
Dinsoor has a population of around 19,600 inhabitants. The broader Dinsoor District has a total population of 75,769 residents.
Notable residents
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References
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UN welcomes signing of power sharing deal in central Somalia
Coastweek 11 Dec 2017
MOGADISHU Somalia (Xinhua) -- ... "This is good news for the people of Galmudug and for all Somalis ... ... The militants, who were armed, surrendered to Somali national army and state forces in Dinsor district in Somalia’s Bay region, which is located in the south west of the country ... "They had travelled from Arabow where Al-Shabaab militants are hiding themselves," Dinsor Commissioner Ibrahim Mohamed Shigshigow told journalists....
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Six Al-Shabaab Fighters Surrender to Somali Govt
All Africa 08 Dec 2017
[Dalsan Radio] Six Al-Shabab fighters surrendered to Somali government forces in Dinsor town on Thursday along with their weapons, Radio Dalsan reports. The militants came along with the improvised "technical" vehicle South West State officials told Radio Dalsan reporter in Baidoa ... ....
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Six Al-Shabaab militants surrender in southwestern Somalia
Xinhua 07 Dec 2017
They had travelled from Arabow where Al-Shabaab militants are hiding themselves," Dinsor Commissioner Ibrahim Mohamed Shigshigow told journalists....
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U.S. strikes militants in Somalia, Libya
The Japan News 22 Nov 2017
The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Reflecting stepped-up targeting of extremists in Africa, the U.S ... U.S. Africa Command, which manages U.S ... That is the largest number of reported deaths from a single U.S ... drone aircraft fired at least eight missiles at al-Shabab bases and training camps in Bur-Eylada, a village situated between the towns of Dinsor and Burhakaba in the Bay region ... + - ... ....
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US attacks militants in Somalia and Libya
Bozeman Daily Chronicle 21 Nov 2017
A Somali intelligence official said U.S. drone aircraft fired at least eight missiles at al-Shabab bases and training camps in Bur-Eylada, a village situated between the towns of Dinsor and Burhakaba in the Bay region ... ....
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Famine threatening 4 countries casts shadow over global hunger progress
Yahoo Daily News 14 Oct 2017
More. The number of hungry people around the world has fallen more than a quarter since 2000, but famine has cast a dark shadow over four countries in the past year where conflict and climate shocks are threatening to reverse this progress, according to results from an annual global hunger index ... UNICEF ... PHOTO ... More ... An elderly woman begs for food at a camp for the internally displaced on the outskirts of Dinsor, Somalia, March 8, 2017 ... ....
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Somali Teenagers Flee Al-Shabab Recruitment Campaign
Voa News 27 Sep 2017
Al-Shabab militants have launched what appears to be a forced recruitment campaign in Somalia's southwestern regions of Bay and Bakool, according to Somali officials ... Doyow said many families and their children have fled their villages to larger towns in the Bay region, including Baidoa, Dinsor and Bardale ... Robow is al-Shabab's former deputy emir and a Bakool native who defected to the government in August ... Last year, the U.N ... ....
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Reprieve but no solution for Kenya’s Dadaab refugees
IRINnews 16 Nov 2016
The Kenyan government has postponed its closure of the Dadaab refugee camp by six months, but the reprieve does not reverse its ultimate decision to send home 261,000 Somali refugees, despite the loud protest by human rights groups ... “This doesn’t really change anything,” Human Rights Watch researcher Laetitia Bader told IRIN ... Bad choices ... Guray Hefow Abdi had a shop and cattle in her hometown of Dinsor, in Somalia’s Bay region ... CREDIT....
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