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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, members of the Dir clan Gadabursi sub-clan and other non-Darood Somali clans praised the Ethiopian embassy for holding dialogue with exiled Somali-Ethiopians in London and beyond.

Kheyre, a Somali-Norwegian, is a former regional director ... the traditional clan balance alongside Farmajo who is a Darood. He now awaits parliament approval after which, in consultation ...