People / group
Gadabuursi
The Gadabuursi are a Somali clan of the Dir family, living in the north-west of Somaliland, especially the Awdal region around Borama, and in neighbouring parts of Ethiopia and Djibouti. In the 1880s their leaders signed protection treaties with Britain that helped establish the British Somaliland protectorate.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Gadabuursi. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/gadabuursi
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