Luuq (Somali: Luuq, Arabic: لوق) is a city in the southwestern Gedo province of Somalia. It is one of the older settlements in the area. It is the seat of the Luuq District. The town is located in a bend of the Juba River, where the watercourse flows down from north to south in a horseshoe shape. Luuq is also known as Luuq Gan naane.
Luuq (Somali: Luuq, Arabic: لوق) is a city in the southwestern Gedo province of Somalia. It is one of the older settlements in the area. It is the seat...
Luuq District (Somali: Degmada Luuq) is a district in the southwestern Gedo region of Somalia. Its capital is Luuq. It is mainly inhabited by mirifle (macalinweyne)and...
Guri-Galti conflicts over power and resources are common, especially in Luuq, Belet Hawo, and Baardhere. Garbaharrey was the last refuge of deposed President...
third largest and most populous city in the Gedo region after Bardera and Luuq. During the Middle Ages, Garbahare and its surrounding area was part of the...
completed his primary, middle and high school education in Luuq. He was a school teacher in Luuq. He studied at a university in Mogadishu. Abdiaziz Laftagareen...
military wing was led by General Mohammed Hashi Ghani based in the city of Luuq, Gedo. The organization would be consistently represented at all major national...
Jubba River near the Somali Region in Ethiopia, just 50 km (31 mi) north of Luuq. Balet Hawo District lies west of Dolow near the North Eastern Province....
Somalia. It is situated 30km west of Baidoa on the main road from Baidoa to Luuq in the Gedo Region. In 2016 a massacre occurred in Awdiinle. For these spelling...
architectures in various areas within its realm, including a fortress at Luuq and a citadel at Bardera. At its height, the Sultanate covered all Rahanweyn...
mouth of the Jubba River. Bardhere is a second largest city in Jubaland also Luuq, and Beled Haawo are the region's other principal settlements. Other cities...
Somalia. Abdirahman Jama Barre was born in 1937 in the southern town of Luuq, Italian Somaliland. He hails from the Marehan Darod clan. He was a cousin...
architectures in various areas within its realm, including a fortress at Luuq and a citadel at Bardera. The Geledi army numbered 20,000 men in times of...
Mohamed Omar Salihi was born on 1952 in Luuq, Somalia, His father worked for the local administration in Luuq where he also went to primary school between...
of Jubaland. Major cities which the Jubba River passes by include Dolow, Luuq, Burdhubo, Beled'hawo, Bardhere, Buale, and Goobweyn near Kismaayo. Shebelle...
Garre evolved a high degree of bilingualism when they controlled trade from Luuq to Boranaland, the language of trade was Oromo language, and also when they...
orphan by the age of 10, attended the elementary school in the town of Lugh (Luuq) in the Gedo Region, formally known as the Upper Jubba Region. He acquired...
part of the imperial Ajuran confederacy. He marched towards Bardheere and Luuq in Gedo region where he expelled the Ajuran clan and established a garrison...
court in the Luuq district of Gedo region in 1992. The court had more success than its counterparts in Mogadishu and consequently Luuq district was the...
Afgooye, Bur Hakaba, Baidoa, Wanlaweyne, Jowhar, Diinsoor, Bardheere and Luuq. Many of these communities were established in these places due to trade...
Polytechnic, Bardera University of Gedo, Bardera Bismo Professional College (Luuq) Kismayo University Admas University College, Garowe East Africa University...
to form in Somalia during the Mesozoic, the Somali Coastal Basin and the Luuq-Mandera Basin, both filled with up to five kilometers of sedimentary rock...
in Somalia in 1981. He completed his studies in Mogadishu, Bardheere and Luuq in the Gedo region; Saakow, Jilib and Bu'aale in Middle Juba; Merka and Qoryoley...
around 20 fighters from the opposing side. On the road between Elberde and Luuq a roadside mine killed 15 people. The landmine detonated underneath a minibus...