[8] The town contains a 40 ft deep cave well with an abundant supply of water, made of limestone used by nomads nearby to sustain themselves and their livestock.

[16] Wadamago is also the site where a battalion led by Henry Alexander Walker performed mundane escort duties and fatigues for a year before returning to Nyasaland.

The group also attacked the house of the district commissioner of Burao District, Major Chambers, resulting in the death of Major Chamber's police guard before escaping to Bur Dhab, a strategic mountain south-east of Burao, where Sheikh Bashir's small unit occupied a fort and took up a defensive position in anticipation of a British counterattack.

The government came to a conclusion that another expedition against him would be useless; that they must build a railway, make roads and effectively occupy the whole of the protectorate, or else abandon the interior completely.

[22] The British administration recruited Indian and South African troops, led by police general James David, to fight against Sheikh Bashir and had intelligence plans to capture him alive.

The British authorities mobilized a police force, and eventually on 7 July found Sheikh Bashir and his unit in defensive positions behind their fortifications in the mountains of Bur Dhab.

The clan boundary between the Habr Je'lo and the Dhulbahante during the 19th century was traditionally in Laba Garday, a pass in the Buurdhaab mountain chain situated between War Idaad and Wadamago.

[26][27] The Habr Je'lo subsequently expanded into and beyond the Saraar plain and the Ain Valley (which includes Wadamago[28]), pushing the Dhulbahante southwards towards the Haud:[29] Thus under pressure from the Habar Tol Ja'lo expanding to their north, the Dulbahante claim that formerly their north-western boundary was the Sarar Plain now grazed mainly by Habar Tol Ja'lo.

Those Dulbahante lineages which formerly grazed in the Ain region and which were accordingly called Reer ‘Aymeed today pasture their stock mainly in the scrub-lands of the northern Hand where they are known as ‘people of the bush’ (Reer Oodeed).Wadamago is situated in a very strategic location, lying on the only tarmac road connecting Somaliland with Somalia, and contained a military base belonging to the Somali National Movement.

[30] A famous landmark associated with the town is a fig tree of the Ficus platyphylla order believed to be hundreds of years old called Bardaha Wadaamagoo.