[5][6][7][8][9][10][2] The Gurgure (Mohamed) Madaxweyne Dir are a vast clan that stretch from Balawa (near Jijiga) to the Awash region; they also extend onto areas to the south where they established settlement of Sheikh Hussein Bale.

The Gurgura are the majority clan in Dire Dawa, Afdem (woreda) and Erer district in the Sitti Zone.

Examples of these settlements named after Gurgura saints include Jaldessa, Abasa, Awdal, Amud, Awbare, Awbube and Dire Dawa.

The Gurgura are mentioned in the Futuh Al Habasha: Conquest of Abyssinia as source dating back as far as the 16th century, by Shihabudin Ahmad bin Abd al-Qadir.

It is recorded that the Gurgura were among the famous Somali spearmen led by their chief Garad Abdi who fought alongside Ahmed Gurey or Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi with thirty knights and one-thousand foot-soldiers.

After the weakening of Adal Sultanate, the Ethiopian Christians and later on Oromos took advantage and were able to penetrate through the city and settle the surrounding areas.

(p)Ethiopian–Adal WarIn his book Across Widest Africa: An Account of the Country and People of Eastern, Central and Western Africa As Seen During a Twelve Months' Journey from Djibuti to Cape Verde, Volume 2, written in 1905 , Arnold Henry Savage Landor describes the Gurgura as a Somali tribe that he encountered on his way to Harar from Djibouti in and around Dire Dawa and back towards Abyssinia.

The author goes on to say that they all had eyes the iris of which was of a deep brown, but that portion of the eye-ball which is white was dark yellowish tone.

The author describes the Hawiya, the Ghedebursi (Gadabuursi), Issa, Gurgura, Haberual (Habar Awal) and Dahrot (Darod) as speaking Somali.

The Gurgura fought for the Somali rebels during the Ethiopian Civil War and supported the annexation of Dire Dawa, Ejersa Goro, Hurso and Erer, they actively participated in the Issa and Gurgura Liberation Front and clashed with the Oromo Liberation Front on numerous occasions for control over Dire Dawa.

Abdulaziz was also elected as vice chairperson of the Ethiopian Electoral Board Commission during the transitional period of EPRDF government.

[4] [14] Over 500 hectars of Hurso's lands were seized by the Derg, Mengistu Haile Mariam's government, which ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1991 in the aftermath of the 1977-78 Ogaden War.

Post the wars, the alliance strengthened between the Nole and Gurgura (Specifically Kundhible sub-clan) over the years politically.

[15] Due this alliance and brides the Gurgura men took from the Nole for their military assistance, the Gurgura who are living in the eastern part of Dire Dawa Region and eastern Hararghe Zone of the Oromia region gradually started speaking Afaan Oromo as their mother tongue.

- Shiekh Adam Tula Gurgure (abtirsi or clan tree) are subdivided into seven major sub-clans.

Eldest son of Gurgure is Kundhuble, Gufaatile, Sanjecele, Sanaye, Nabidoor, Gacalwaaq and Biciide.