Furthermore, there are at least 1/4 of a dozen (+-3) recreations of names and identifications purposely engineered for weaponizing conflict resolution to scam humanitarian grants/aid.
There are multiple "Ali Hassan"---multiple "Bali Hawd"---multiple "Odaale."
I will give an example of this disconnect using "Oodaale."
"Oodaale" old is outside Guriceel. What they have reinterpreted as "Oodaale" is called by Marehan in Balanbale as "Gaxandhaale."
It is true that during the experience of the 1996 agreement, Guriceel folks freely passed by Gaxandhaale on their way to Feerfeer route which Rer Balanbale have not used since 1982 and the Ethiopian-SSDF capture of Balanbale in which many Marehan from Balanbale were massacred.
In that migration, seasonally, both going down to Feerfeer and coming back up to Galgaduud, Guriceel nomads would build their temporary ood for rest or emergency, which ever, next to already populated spots and Gaxandhaale was a very convenient location being the settlement with good water access utilized always by the southern facing Rer Balanbale.
Guriceels upcycled "Odaale" to reinterpret "Gaxandhaale" in their subjective memory, but where they immediately decamped next to Gaxandhaale. The area has been a very targeted landscape for the IDP scam where there was recurrent empty "jinged" overnight placement/morning emptiness. It is where Rer Balanbale started to understand what this was all about.
Well, two years ago, Rer Balanbale decided to physically settle in "Gaxandhaale" as a deterrent to the recurrent bait and switch.
For an entire year, last year, there was random attacks on Gaxandhaale; drive by sort of shootings. Even just as weaponized was information; at every turn Guriceel folks redrafted the narrative of "two communities of Balanbale from Gaxandhaale fighting over resources."
I mean really just put "Gaxandhaale" and "Balanbale" into Google and you will get countless hits and propaganda about this repurposed information warfare.
This is Gaxandhaale as of last month; half a year after it was successfully completely seized back from the forces of misinformation after a 2 year campaign to solidify security of the wider perimeter.
It is no longer the useful victim targeted for temporary "jiingad" placements to scam donor conflict resolution/IDP grant schemes, a ghost created for purposed mapping without equities on the ground;---but is now a real building process with brick and morter school and clinic and water well entirely financed by Rer Siyaad Diini of Balanbale and contributions from other Marehan.
Balanbale has had the misfortune of becoming a target of a thrifty scam, but the usefully "unaware" era has come to a close.
The experience of Gaxandhaale speaks for itself after the information warfare of the recent past.