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The resort was developed by the Ethiopian government, and was in operation by 1963.

During the mid-1990s, Sodere was the site of peace talks between several factions vying for control of Somalia.

The journalist Abdullahi Dool commented that " Any serious Somali who reads the outcome of this last meeting at the Ethiopian resort or the previous ones, would just laugh at the names and clan organizations these peole are said to ' represent '.