page_title: Badhan, Sanaag
section_title: Condition of the road
hierarchical_section_title: Badhan, Sanaag / Transportation / Land / Condition of the road
caption_attribution_description: English: Main road in the city of Badhan
context_page_description: Badhan, also known as Baran is a town in the Sanaag administrative region of northern Somalia.
context_section_description: The road is on flat terrain for the first 10 km coming from Badhan though it meanders quite a bit probably brought about by traffic trying to run on the smoothest possible surface. There are no specific obstacles that could be said to cause the wavy traffic movement.
  After the 50th kilometer, from Badhan, the terrain is mostly downhill. One noticeable feature is that there is an increasingly large number of turns that are much tighter when going downhill compared to the general uphill section from 19 to 50 km when coming from Badhan. Again, cut slope angles need to be improved throughout the section.
  The downhill terrain continues until 72.5 km from Badhan where the terrain is flat and with loose stones on approaching a dry river bed at 73 km, the upstream edge of the road at that section had some protective gabions which built by the former Somali government. When leaving the river bed, the approach going up was noted to be narrow. Between 77.2 and 77.3 km, again coming from Badhan, the road crosses 3 other river beds. From the last dry river bed crossing on that section, the road route runs almost parallel to the river all the way to Laasqoray. The terrain thereon to Laasqoray is flat.
caption: Main road in the city of Badhan
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