Guriel ( so, Guriceel), ar, جرعيل, جوري عيل ) is a city in the central

Galguduud Galguduud ( so, Galgaduud, ar, جلجدود, it, Galgudud or ''Ghelgudud'') is an administrative region ('' gobol'') of Galmudug state in central Somalia. Its administrative capital is Dusmareb. The largest town in the region is Abudwak, whi ...

region of

Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...

located in

Galmudug Galmudug ( ar, جلمدج; it, Galmudugh), officially Galmudug State of Somalia ( so, Dowlad Goboleedka Galmudug ee Somalia, Soomaaliya), is a States and regions of Somalia, Federal Member State in central Somalia, with its capital at Dhusamareb. ...

state. The city serves as the capital of the Guriel District. The City of guricel is inhabited by the Ayr clan.

Conflict

This city has been in conflict since the fall of the former Somali government in 1991 until now. In 2006, the

Islamic Courts Union The Islamic Courts Union ( so, Midowga Maxkamadaha Islaamiga) was a legal and political organization formed to address the lawlessness that had been gripping Somalia since the fall of the Siad Barre regime in 1991 during the Somali Civil War. Th ...

(ICU), a militant Islamic organization, took control of most of central Somalia. Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, supported by Ethiopia, defeated the ICU in late 2006. In 2007, Al-Shabaab, another Islamic extremist group born in southern Somalia, attacked Guriel, but the local paramilitary group Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a (ASWJ), born in response, took control of Guriel in 2010. However, the conflict between ASWJ and Al-Shabaab did not stop after that, and the Ethiopian army also intervened in the conflict. In addition that,

, a regional government created in central Somalia, joined the conflict in the name of Somali government forces. In October 2021, another battle broke out between ASWJ and Galmudug, displacing most of the inhabitants of Guriel (20,000 houses, 100,000 people). Both the main hospital and the community hospital were destroyed by fire and shelling. By the end of the year an estimated 120 people had died in this recent spate of fighting.

Reference

External links

Guriel, Galgaduud, Somalia
Populated places in Galguduud Populated places in Somalia Galmudug Cities in Somalia {{Somalia-geo-stub