Buq Aqable (Somali: Buq Aqable or Buqda Caqable; Italian: Bugda Acable) is a town in the western Hiiraan region of Somalia and the capital of Buq Aqable District.United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, GeoNames,listed the town under Hiiraan and recorded its coordinates and historical and alternative names.
The town located at approximately 4°3'28"N 45°15'27"E. about 75 km south of Beledweyne and 45 km from Buloburde.Mapcarta, "Buq Aqable", based on geographic databases including OpenStreetMap and GeoNames.
1921 Italian census recorded Bugda Acable as settlement.Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, Popolazione delle colonie italiane e rilevazione abitanti isole Egee, census of 1 December 1921. In 1924, the Italian anthropologist Nello Puccioni visited Bugda Acable during an expedition from Mogadishu through the Uebi Scebeli valley toward Lugh.Enciclopedia Italiana, "Puccioni, Nello", Treccani.
A 1931 census listed Bugda Acable among the settlements associated with the Galgial group, the name used in Italian records for the Gaalje'el. The census also listed several Galgial subdivisions and other localities in the same area.Istituto Centrale di Statistica, VII Censimento della popolazione, Vol. V: Colonie e Possedimenti, 1931. and also document Galgial people at Bugda Acable. An italian anthropological study identified a religious figure at Bugda Acable as belonging to the Abtisame (Galgiàl) clan.Italian ethnographic collections documenting a Galgial dwelling at Bugda Acable.Italian anthropological study identifying Sheikh Ibrahim Abdullah of the Abtisame (Galgiàl) clan at Bugda Acable.
In the post-colonial period, Bugda Acable was included in educational planning for Bulo Burti District. A Somali government decree issued in 1965 also established a detached civil judicial section there.United Nations Trusteeship Council, report concerning the Trust Territory of Somalia, education development programme, 1950s.Bollettino Ufficiale della Repubblica Somala, Supplement No. 4 to No. 11, 17 November 1965, Ministerial Decree No. 251 of 30 October 1965.
June 2023, Hirshabelle State cabinet approved Buq Aqable and five other localities to district level.
Administrative divisions Dabbad El Warre Haraale, Aqabley, Haji Gabow,
History In March 2014, Somali Armed Forces assisted by AMISOM troops captured the town from Al-Shabaab. The offensive was part of an intensified military operation by the allied forces to remove the insurgent group from the remaining areas in southern Somalia under its control. In September 2015, Al-Shabaab retakes the city from Somalia Armed Forces.
On 4th June 2023, the Buq Aqable area was elevated to district level by the Hirshabelle cabinet.
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