Harardhere

The town was controlled by the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group al-Shabaab from at least 2012 to 2023. In 2018, a US airstrike killed 60 al-Shabaab fighters at a training camp in a rural area outside the town.^[1] On 16 January 2023, the town was recaptured by the Somali Armed Forces.

As of 2005, Harardhere had a population of around 65,543 inhabitants. As with most of Galmudug, it is primarily inhabited by Somalis from the Hiraab sub-clan of the Hawiye.^[2][3]

• Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, second president of Somalia
• Daud Abdulle Hirsi, first Somali Armed Forces commander
• Mohamed Abshir Muse, first Somali Police Force commander
• Salaad Gabeyre Kediye, former Somali senior military commander
• Ahmed Mohamed Jimale, former Chief of staff of Somalia National Army
• Mahad Karate, deputy emir and leader of Al-Shabaab Aminayat