[2] In June 2002, the forces of Muhammad Umar Habeb of the Warsangali clan attacked El Baraf.

El Baraf was controlled by the warlords of Dahir Dayah, then Minister of Interior of the Transitional National Government of Somalia.

[1] In February 2008, a struggle between Hawaadle and Abgaal, a branch of the Hawiye clan, set the stage for fighting in Qoryale and El Baraf.

[2] In June 2009, there was fighting in El Baraf between forces supporting the TFG government and Al-Shabaab, displacing the residents.

[13] In September 2019, some 50 people from Alkowsar in the Adan Yabal district of the Middle Shabelle region returned to El Baraf as emissaries of al-Shabaab, where they were arrested and prohibited from contacting their relatives.

[14] In October 2019, Somali government soldiers shot and killed a young man in El Baraf.