Many Somali Americans maintain connections to Somalia ... is home to many members of the Dhulbahante, a sub-group of the Darood clan, many of whom do not want to secede from the rest of Somalia ...

A prominent Somali factional leader Friday warned that ... a professional soldier and a member of the Darood clan, as president. He was sworn into office Thursday. In the coming weeks, Mr ...

All of the major Somali clan families are found in Somali Region. The Somali Darood are the largest clan family numerically—with the Darood Ogaadeen clan estimated to be the largest single clan ...

On January 8, 2007, Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed ... The four major clans—Darood, Hawiye, Dir, and Digil-Mirifle—all received sixty-one parliament seats, while the remaining groups ...

Somali unionists have denounced the artificiality ... Somaliland is largely Isaaq with a large Darood population in its less populace east, while the Darood and other clans predominate in other ...

a member of the Darood clan family, which contains numerous sub-clans represented across the Horn of Africa. Place names present a challenge in Somali Region. For many years the Somali language ...

An ad hoc council of five educated young men tell me there are 13 Somali clans. They warn me not to listen to confused officials who claim otherwise. Hawiye, Darood, Rahanweyne, Issa, Gadabursi ...

As we left our homes, we didn’t take anything with us, expecting to return shortly. However, it took much longer than we ...

Historic On Monday night, the visiting Darood king held a public meeting with members of the Somali community in Johannesburg. "It's a historic moment for the Somalis in South Africa for the ...

which favours the Darood clan in particular. Regardless of these challenges, Somali women remain optimistic and resilient There are looming fears that even with a set date, the possibility of polls ...

The Darood and Hawiye clans and their sub-clans have spread across the Somali borders into Ethiopia and Kenya and have an interest in events on the Somali side. This introduces clan dynamics into ...

I read that if you recite Darood 1,000 times daily, you won't die without getting the glad news of Paradise. I have also seen Dhikr, for example, which says "praise be to Allah as many times as the ...