Beledweyne

Beledweyne was a primary objective during the Ethiopian invasion in June 1982.

In April 2008, al-Shabaab fighters killed British/Somalian Head-teacher Daud Ali and three of his teachers.

On May 7, 2012, Beledweyne held its first mayoral elections since the start of the civil war in the early 1990s.

In 2019, Safiya Jimale became the first female mayor in Somalia.

Beledweyne has a hot arid climate with an average daily maximum temperature of 36.7 °C between March and April.