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Borama




Boorama or '''Borama''' is a city in the Awdal region of Somaliland , near the border with Ethiopia .

The population of Borama in 2006 was approximately 200.000 residents. Borama is the commercial center of an Arid Region in which Livestock herding is mixed with subsistence Farming .

Borama is an important Education center and is the home of the historic Amoud University . The first postwar institution of higher learning throughout Somaliland .

The city also is home to two newly built schools: the Al-Aqsa and Ubaya-Ibnuka'ab Secondary Schools. Other secondary Schools in Boorama are Sh. Al Jowhar, Qatar Secondary School and Hassan Arbile Secondary School.

Also, Borama is the home of the first Deaf school in Somaliland. Borama Deaf School trains and provides the deaf children with education that extends up to high school. Since the school is the first and the only one of its type, it has attracted a great number of deaf pupils from across Somaliland and even beyond.

Borama is a mountainous and hilly city and has one of the wonderful and beautiful landscapes in the country. It has green s, Bird s, Camel s and other animals as well.

Borama has three major hotels: Rays Hotel, Hotel Nasimo and Hotel Cape Town.

Borama has also two major Guesthouses, Mana Guesthouse and Mon Light Guesthouse.

Borama has a International Aiport named Aden Isaq, Djibouti airlines landed every week twice in Boorama, Dalloo Airlines and Star Africa lands in the summer seasons.

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


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