Sahil, Somaliland

Region of Somaliland

Region of Somaliland in Sahil

Sahil

Saaxil (Somali)
ساحل (Arabic)

Region of Somaliland

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Location in Somaliland

Country|  Somaliland
Administrative centre| Berbera
Government

• Governor| Cali Cabdi Cabdillaahi Faarax
Area

• Total

| 13,930 km2 (5,380 sq mi)
Time zone| UTC+3 (EAT)

Sahil (Somali: Saaxil, Arabic: ساحل) is an administrative region (gobol) in northern Somaliland with the port city of Berbera as its capital. It was separated from Woqooyi Galbeed and became a province in 1991. In 1998, the Sheikh District of Togdheer was incorporated into Sahil region.[1] The region has a long coastline facing the Gulf of Aden to the north. Sahil borders Awdal to the northwest, Maroodi Jeex to the southwest, Togdheer to the south and Sanaag to the east.

## History

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Formerly known as the Berbera District, it was one of six districts that made up the British Somaliland protectorate. In 1960, the then independent State of Somaliland merged with Italian Somaliland to form the Somali Republic. By 1964, the then Berbera District merged with the Borama district (now Awdal) and the Hargeisa district (now Maroodi Jeh) to form the Woqooyi Galbeed region (literally North West, also known as Hargeisa region).

During the period from 1968 to 1982, parts of the district were incorporated into Togdheer region. Awdal was carved out of the western parts of Woqooyi Galbeed region in June 1984.[2] However, Sahil was the only of the six former British territories to be rebuilt during the Somali government's reign.

When the Somali Civil War broke out, the former British territory declared the revival of the pre-independent state of Somaliland. In December 1989, the Somaliland government established Sahil region. In 1998, the Sheikh District was incorporated from Togdheer. Under the Local Autonomy Act of 2002, it was positioned as one of the six regions that make up Somaliland.[3]

The Somaliland was reorganized on 22 March 2008, and the territory of Sahil was changed. However, a new local government law came into force on 4 January 2020, and the territory was restored.[4]

## Districts

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Berbera

Bulhar

Karin

Lafa-Ruug

Sheikh

Siyara

Xagal

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Towns in Sahil

The regional capital of the Sahil region is the port city of Berbera. The region is further divided into the following two districts:[5]

District | Grade | Capital | Comments | Location

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Berbera | A | Berbera | Regional capital |
Sheikh | C | Sheikh |  |

## Demographics

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According to the Somaliland Ministry of National Planning Sahil had a population of 149,244 in 1997.[6]

The region is inhabited by the Issa Musse sub-clan of the Habr Awal,[7] the Habr Yunis, primarily belonging to the Musa Abdallah branch[8] as well as the Habr Je'lo, all clans of the wider Isaaq clan-family.[9]

## Map

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* Map of Sahil Region

## See also

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* Administrative divisions of Somaliland
* Regions of Somaliland
* Districts of Somaliland
* Somalia–Somaliland border

* Somaliland portal

## References

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1. ^ "Local Government Law".
2. ^ "Somalia Regions".
3. ^ "Local Government Law".
4. ^ "Wax-ka-beddelka iyo Kaabista Xeerka Ismaamulka Gobolladda iyo Degmooyinka, Xeer Lr. 23/2019" (PDF). Somaliland Law.
5. ^ "Development plan" (PDF). slministryofplanning.org. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
6. ^ United Nations Office for Somalia, (UNDOS) (1997). "WAQOOYI GALBEED AND SAHIL". Archived from the original on 30 June 2001.
7. ^ Center for Creative Solutions (31 May 2004), Ruin and Renewal: The Story of Somaliland, Hargeisa: Center for Creative Solutions, archived from the original on 8 April 2011, retrieved 21 September 2010, "The 'Iise Muuse clan for whom Berbera and its environs are their traditional area of settlement saw it differently. Retrieved on 2011-12-15."
8. ^ Lewis, I. M. (3 February 2017). I.M Lewis : peoples of the Horn of Africa. Routledge. p. 24\. ISBN 9781315308173.
9. ^ Kluijver, Robert. "KYD3 - Politics in Berbera". Politics and Art from the Edge. Archived from the original on 2 January 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2022.

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Regions of Somaliland

* Awdal
* Maroodi Jeex
* Sahil
* Sanaag
* Sool
* Togdheer

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