It is located near the border with southern Somalia and the Mandera County in Kenya.

Suftu is one of three towns in the Dolo Odo woreda border to Mandera County.

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2006, this town had an estimated total population of 25,059, of whom 13,366 are men and 11,693 are women.

[4] According to Chatham House, Suftu is inhabited by Somalis From the Marehan tribe.

Chatham House notes that the town lies along major trading routes in Ethiopia used by Somali livestock merchants, which lead from the western and north-western parts of the country to Mandera in the North Eastern Province of Kenya.