Kismaayo is a Ville south-east of the Somalia (province of the Jubbada Hoose), near to the mouth of the river Jubba.

History

The city was founded by Bajuni, ethnos group bantoue before the clans somalis settle in the area.

Kismaayo was managed by the sultanate of Zanzibar in 1835, then occupied by the Egypt of 1875 with 1876, under Mehemet Ali. July 1st 1895, it was annexed to British protectorate of East Africa, before being yielded to the Italy the July 15th 1924. Two years later, the city was incorporated in the Italian Somalia and became the capital of the area of Juba.

Modern Kismaayo owes its development with the know-how of its inhabitants who knew to weave commercial relations with the counters of commercial exchanges of the Eastern coast of Africa throughout the last centuries. It became, the shortly after the collapse of the Somali State, in January 1991, a high place of resistance before falling under control from the militiamans from the war leaders Aîdid and Omar Jesse. Several hundreds of civilians, including one great number of doctors and intellectuals, there furenr massacred in a systematic way and this in the objective to make flee by terror the townsmen. Martyrdom city until the Belgian arrival of the soldiers within the framework of the Restore-Hope operation to the autonme 1993. Two years later, at the time of the end of the U.N. mission, the administration of the city was entrusted to the Morgan general, son-in-law of former president de Somalie Siad Barre, and liege man of the clan of this last. After having failed in the mission of pacification of the clans of the area, the Morgan general was revoked but it was maintained with the téte administration of the area. One needed a great military offensive supported by the inhabitants of Kismaayo and directed by Colonel Barre Hiiraale to relieve it in 2001.

Sources

• WorldStatesmen- Somalia