An ad hoc council of five educated young men tell me there are 13 Somali clans. ... Sheikhal, Isaaq, Biyomal, Gaadsan, Yibro, Midgan, Tumal, and Gaboye are the clans. They make up one tribe and ...

Somalis divide themselves into many clans and clan confederations. Clan and tribe mean the same thing to me and I will be referring to them often. The Somali word for clan or tribe is Qabil. The ...

Subject: Concern of the Absent Clans in the Determination of the National Destiny We, the undersigned representatives of the traditional elders, intellectuals, women, youth and other members of ...

In a possible sign that fractious sub-clans of Somalia's Hawiye tribe may be uniting to oppose Ethiopia and Somalia's interim government, a top Islamist leader and the deputy prime minister of the ...

Somalia’s population is comprised of four main tribes and other minority clans. Tribalism has splintered Somali immigrant groups in other countries, and some activists in the Twin Cities are ...

At least 15 people have been killed, as rival Somali clans battle for grazing land and water points for their animals, aid workers say. The Saad and Suleman sub-clans have been fighting for months in ...

Somalia’s clans have always been strong and are the only source of security and social welfare for most people. Almost all the militias currently fighting al-Shabab have kinship ties to the ...