Late-19th-century Somali sultanate carved out by Yusuf Ali Kenadid on the central coast.
Conquered by Fascist Italy in late 1925: De Vecchi ordered the invasion on 1 October 1925 and overran the sultanate by November; Sultan Ali Yusuf Kenadid surrendered and Hobyo became an administrative division of Italian Somaliland.
Yusuf Ali Kenadid's Hobyo sultanate in Somali political history.
The central Somali coast and its peoples (broad context).