However, tribe is still seen as social insurance and a non-Somali may struggle to understand ... that have claimed hundreds of lives. Other clans whose marriages are rare are the Auliyan and ...

This new tribe is a construct of different components ... If you multiply this number by all the Somali clans and sub-clans, roughly 10,000 students graduate every two years from these ...

Clans are still a key arbiter of many aspects of Somali life and identity, and they have played a significant role in politics. At the same time, growing use of the internet and mobile phones is ...