Adado

Adado, in northern Galgaduud, is one of central Somalia's success stories: a town rebuilt and expanded largely by its own business community and diaspora, with straight, planned streets, private schools and clinics, and a reputation for order that it earned during years when much of the region had little of it.

Before Galmudug's expansion, Adado served as the seat of the Himan and Heeb administration, a locally organised polity formed in 2008. In 2015 the town hosted the conference that merged Himan and Heeb into the new Galmudug federal member state, and it served as the state's first interim capital before the administration moved to Dhusamareb.

The town lives on livestock, cross-country trade, and remittances, and its merchants maintain trading links that stretch from Mogadishu to the Gulf.