Mustahīl (Amharic: ሙስታሂል, Somali: Mustaxiil) is a town in eastern Ethiopia, close to the border with Somalia.

Located in the Gode Zone in the Somali Region and straddling the Shabelle River, it has a latitude and longitude of 5°15′N 44°44′E / 5.250°N 44.733°E / 5.250; 44.733 with an altitude of 193 meters above sea level.

This district belongs to Jidle tribe In the early 1930s the Italians with their banda troops encroached some distance inside Ethiopian territory into the Ogaden.

Colonel Rettli had his headquarters at Mustahil, where he made contact with Sultan Olol Diinle and convinced him to support the Italian cause.

"[1] The BBC reported 9 March 2009 that the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) claimed it had captured Mustahil, having killed 80 Ethiopian soldiers, and was also fighting for control of Werder and Kelafo.