Belet Xaawo

Belet Xaawo (also spelled Beled Hawo or Beledxaawo) is a town in the Gedo region of southwestern Somalia, notable as the only town in Somalia sitting at a tri-border point with both Kenya and Ethiopia. That position has made it the region's commercial hub: livestock trade, cross-border commerce, and remittances drive an economy locals describe as unusually cash-flush for Somalia, and the Kenyan shilling circulates alongside the Somali shilling due to the proximity of Mandera in northeastern Kenya. Like much of Gedo, the area hosted United Nations and US camps during the Operation Restore Hope intervention of the early 1990s.

By Car / Road

Belet Xaawo is reached by road from Garbahaarey and connects onward across the nearby Kenyan and Ethiopian borders.

Cross-border livestock and general trade is the town's economic mainstay, with the Kenyan shilling widely accepted alongside the Somali shilling.

• Garbahaarey — the regional capital
• Ceel Waaq — a neighbouring town in Gedo