Borama Boorama بوراما
Ahmed Gurey district in Borama
Borama Location of Borama in Somalia
Coordinates: 9°55′59″N 43°10′54″E / 9.93306°N 43.18167°E / 9.93306; 43.18167Coordinates: 9°55′59″N 43°10′54″E / 9.93306°N 43.18167°E / 9.93306; 43.18167
Country	Somalia
Region	Awdal
District	Borama
Government
- Mayor	Abdirahman Shide Bile
Time zone	East Africa Time (UTC+3)

Borama (Somali: Boorama, Arabic: بوراما‎), also known as Borame, is a city in the northwestern Awdal region of Somalia.

The commercial seat of the province, it is situated near the border with Djibouti and Ethiopia. The city has a population of 300,000 residents, and has been a leading example in community organizing, having been the first area in northwestern Somalia to adopt a self-help scheme.

Control of Borama is disputed between Awdalland, a proposed autonomous state, and Somaliland, a self-declared republic that is internationally recognized as an autonomous region of Somalia.

Education

Amoud University

Borama is the capital of the Awdal province. It is an important educational center and home to Amoud University, the first post-civil war institution of higher learning in Somalia, and EELO American University. The town counts six secondary schools, four of them newly-built: Al Aqsa Secondary School, Ubaya - Ibnuka'ab Secondary School, Al Nuur Secondary School and New Amoud Secondary School. The other two secondary schools in the town are the famous Sh. Ali Jowhar Secondary and Hassan Ardale Secondary School.

Borama is also home to the first school for the hearing impaired in Somalia. Borama Deaf School trains and provides educational services for deaf children that extends to high school. Since the school is the first and only one of its kind, it has attracted a great number of deaf pupils from across the region and even beyond.

Geography

Borama is a mountainous and hilly city. It has green meadows and fields, and represents a key focal point for wildlife. The town's unusual fertility and greenery in largely arid Somalia has attracted many animals, such as gazelles, birds, and camels.

Accommodation

The Rays Hotel

In addition, the city has four major hotels: Rays Hotel is situated in the western corner of town, next to the Sheera Boorama. Cape Town Hotel, Harawa Hotel and Nasimo Hotel, for their part, are located downtown. Other notable places of accommodation include Borama Hotel and Madina Hotel, which are both situated in the city's interior.

Air service

Borama International Airport is the only airport in the Awdal region. It bears the name of Somalia's first Minister of Education, Aden Isaaq.

Airlines: Djibouti Airlines and Daallo Airlines
Destinations: Hargeisa, Bosaso, Burao, Galkacyo, Mogadishu, Djibouti, Addis Ababa, Dubai, Jeddah

Twinning

Borama is twinned with

• Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom, since 1981

Notes

• The statistical abstract of Borama municipality: Borama, regional capital of Awdal. Borama Local Council. 2003. http://books.google.ca/books?id=UYuyAAAAIAAJ.