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Borama
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Country Somalia
Region (Gobolka)Awdal
Government
 • MayorAbdirahman Shide Bile
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)

Borama (var. Borame; Template:Lang-so) is a city in the Awdal region of Somalia, near the border with Djibouti. It has a population of 150,000 to 200,000 residents, and serves as the commercial hub of the Awdal region.

Rays Hotel in Borama, Somalia.

Borama is an important educational center and home to Amoud University, the first post-civil war institution of higher learning in Somalia. The town counts six secondary schools, four of them newly-built: Al Aqsa Secondary School, Ubaya - Ibnuka'ab Secondary School, Al Nuur Secondary School and New Amoud Secondary School. The other two secondary schools in the town are the famous Sh. Ali Jowhar Secondary and Hassan Ardale Secondary School.

Borama is also home to the first school for the hearing impaired in Somalia. Borama Deaf School trains and provides educational services for deaf children that extends to high school. Since the school is the first and only one of its kind, it has attracted a great number of deaf pupils from across the region and even beyond.

Borama is a mountainous and hilly city. It has green meadows and fields, and represents a key wildlife hub. The town's unusual fertility and greenery in largely arid Somalia has attracted many animals, such as gazelles, birds, and camels.

In addition, the city has three major hotels. Rays Hotel is situated at the western corner of town, next to the Sheera Boorama. Cape Town Hotel and Nasimo Hotel are both for their part located downtown.

Borama International Airport is the only airport in the Awdal region. It bears the name of Somalia's first Minister of Education, Aden Isaaq.

Airlines: Djibouti Airlines, Daallo Airlines and Star African Airlines Destinations: Djibouti, Dubai, Hargeisa and Mogadishu

Annalena Tonelli, winner of the 2003 Nansen Refugee Award from the UNHCR, was murdered in October 2003 at the Tuberculosis hospital she founded in Borama.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Goth, Bashir and Hashim Annalena Tonelli found her bliss in becoming one with the poorest, Awdal News Network, Somali Republic (October 8, 2004)