European artists depiction of the 1896 'Lafoole Massacre' of Italian troops by Somali rebels
Date
1888–1924[2]
Location
Horn of Africa, southern Italian Somalia
Result
Italian victory Insurgency suppressed
Belligerents
Kingdom of Italy
Bimali rebel forces Wa'dan rebel forces[1]
Commanders and leaders
Giacomo Trevis
Lieutenant Gustavo Pesenti
Sheikh Abdi Abikar Gaafle
Ma’alin Mursal Abdi Yusuf
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Sudan (1881)
Egypt (1882)
Wassoulou (1883)
Madagascar (1883)
Eritrea (1885)
Equatoria (1886–89)
Somalia (1888–1924)
Congo (1895)
Dahomey (1890)
Mashonaland (1890)
Katanga (1891−92)
Dahomey (1892)
Matabeleland (1893)
Morocco (1893–94)
Wassoulou (1894)
Ashanti (1895)
South Africa (1895)
Ethiopia (1896)
Matabeleland (1896)
Zanzibar (1896)
Benin (1897)
Wassoulou (1898)
Chad (1898)
Fashoda (1898)
South Africa (1899)
Somaliland (1900)
Aro (1901)
Angola (1902)
Namibia (1904)
Tanganyika (1905)
Morocco (1905–06)
South Africa (1906)
Morocco (1907–34)
Mufilo (1907)
Morocco (1909)
Ouaddai (1909)
Morocco (1911)
Libya (1911–12)
South Africa (1914)
Darfur (1916)
The Banadir resistance, also known as the Bimaal revolt,Merca revolt, or simply the Bimaal resistance, was a guerrilla war that lasted from the 1890s to 1924, opposing Italian colonial expansion in southern Somalia.The Biyamaal resistance and their sieges of Marka, and the Italian authority's retribution, continued unabated for many years. It was heightened when, in November 1896, while on a pleasure trip, Console Antonio Cecchi, the Societá del Benadir administrator and also the de facto governor of Southern Somaliland, and his lieutenants, were ambushed at Lafoole, a small village a few kilometres from Afgooye, south of Muqdisho, by Wa'daan and Biyamaal fighters, who killed 14 of them, including Cecchi.
Originating primarily from the Bimaal clan,[3] the resistance was most active in the Lower Shebelle, Banadir and Middle Shebelle regions. Its intensity and significance have drawn comparisons to the Somali Dervish Movement.[3]
^Carpanelli & Scovazzi 2020, p. 88-89.
^Kusow, Abdi (2004). Resistance Putting the Cart Before the Horse: Contested Nationalism and the Crisis of the Nation-state in Somalia. Red Sea Press. ISBN 978-1-56902-202-3. {{cite book}}: Check |url= value (help)
^ abCiisa-Salwe, Cabdisalaam M. (1996-01-01). The collapse of the Somali state: the impact of the colonial legacy. HAAN. p. 19. ISBN 9781874209270.
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