Somalia: Information on the Dulbahante and their relations with other clans in Somaliland specifically in Sool and Sanag
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 May 1994 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | SOM17279.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Somalia: Information on the Dulbahante and their relations with other clans in Somaliland specifically in Sool and Sanag, 1 May 1994, SOM17279.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6acf746.html [accessed 17 September 2023] |
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According to a Somali professor of African Studies at the University of Florida in Gainsville and an ex-director of higher education in Somalia now resident in Ottawa, the Dulbahante and the Warsangeli control Sool and Sanag (4 May 1994). There are Dulbahante in the government of Somaliland but they do not represent the rest of the Dulbahante sub-clan (ibid.). According to Fund for Peace the interests of the Dulbahante and the Warsangeli are represented by the United Somali Party (USP) and they tend to oppose the secession of Somaliland from the rest of Somalia (Leatherbee & Bricker Jan. 1994, 29). According to Ethnic and Political Movements in Ethiopia and Somalia, the Dulbahante are a sub-clan of the Darod, and relations between them and the Marjeteen are "traditionally poor, largely because of feuding over land and water ... [and because of] the Dulbahante role in Siad's [Barre] operations against the clan after the creation of the Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF)" (Gilkes July 1992, 51). Information on the economic activities of the Dulbahante is currently unavailable to the DIRB. For additional information on the Dulbahante, please refer to Responses to Information Requests SOM11474 of 19 August 1992 and SOM14832.E of 20 July 1993, available at your Regional Documentation Centre.
This response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
References
Gilkes, Patrick. July 1992. Ethnic and Political Movement in Ethiopia and Somalia. London: UK.
Leatherbee, L. and Bricker, D. January 1994. The Fund for Peace. Balancing Consensus and Dissent: The Prospects for Human Rights and Democracy in the Horn of Africa. New York: USA.
Somali ex-director for higher education, Ottawa. 4 May 1994. Telephone interview.
Somali professor of African studies, University of Florida, Gainsville. 6 April 1994. Telephone interview.