Kebri Dahar

Kebri Dahar, also written Kebri Dehar, is a city in the eastern Somali Region of Ethiopia, in the Korahe Zone. The town sits at about 1609 metres above sea level and is served by an airport with the IATA code ABK. It is first mentioned in 1931 as a soldier's camp and was established as a garrison fort before the Italo-Abyssinian War. A hospital was under construction in 1958 when Emperor Haile Selassie toured the Ogaden, and a road to the new town of Gode was built in 1966. During the Ogaden War in 1977 the town was captured by the Somali army and retaken by Ethiopian paracommandos on 8 March 1978. A 2005 estimate from the Central Statistical Agency put the population at 100,191, and it is the largest settlement in Kebri Dehar woreda.