Dhobley formerly known as Liboi-Somalia is a strategic border town located south-western

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's lower juba region and approximately 0.2 KM from the

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border and second largest city in the Lower Juba region after

Kismayo Kismayo (, , ; ) is a port city in the southern Lower Juba (Jubbada Hoose) province of Somalia. It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region. The city is situated southwest of the capital Mogadishu, near the mouth of the Jub ...

, the capital of the region

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.the town was established at around the 1970s by a group of pastrolist who settled for rearing their livestocks.

Administrative

Dhobley has all the following areas: * Diif Somali * Deg-ilima * Tabto * Bilis Qooqaani, * Kulmis * Wadajir and many more.

Economy

The main sources of income in Dhobley are the livestock trade, cross-border trade such as currency exchange, and the

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of the city, the transport tax between the two countries. ETC.

Education

Dhobley as 8 schools, three of which are high schools.

Infrastructures

The district is also rich in water and has about eight water boreholes and irrigates all the surrounding areas and a large number of livestock who come to the city during the drought in the districts around Dhobley and in the region NFD. Populated places in Lower Juba Populated places in Somalia Kenya–Somalia border crossings {{Somalia-geo-stub