According to Généalogie du peuple Somali, the Awrtable (also Aurtable and Awartable) clan traces its ancestry via the lineage of Yuusuf Daarood (n.d., 98), or through the Wabaneya lineage of the Mijerteen branch of the Darod (Daarood) (ibid., 102). This information on the ancestry of the Awrtable was corroborated by a Somalia specialist on contract to the United Nations Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia during a personal interview in Toronto on 14 February 1996. Gilkes also corroborates this information on the Darod ancestry of the Aurtable in his genealogy charts, but he does not itemize subclans in the Majerteen-Wabaneya lineage in those charts (Sept. 1994, n.p.).

Additional information on the Awrtable beyond that already provided in Responses to Information Requests SOM23305.E of 11 April 1996 and SOM20820.E of 12 June 1995 could not be found among the sources consulted by the DIRB. These Responses are available at Regional Documentation Centres.

Please note that the spelling of Somali place names and clan names is not consistent in the literature, and that each of the spellings used in this Response reflect the original spelling found in the cited sources.

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. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

References

Généalogie du peuple Somali. n.d. (Compiled in Documentation, Information and Research Branch (DIRB), Immigration and Refugee Board. Feb. 1996. "Supplement to Information Session on Country Conditions on Somalia," pp. 98, 102)

Gilkes. Patrick. September 1994. The Price of Peace: Somalia and the United Nations 1991-1994. Bedfordshire, UK: Save the Children Fund, UK.

Somali specialist on contract to the United Nations Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia., Addis Ababa. 14 February 1996. Personal interview.

Additional Sources Consulted

Blood and Bone: The Call of Kinship in Somali Society. 1994. I.M. Lewis.

Information Session on Somalia. 1996. IRB.

A Modern History of Somalia. 1988. I.M. Lewis.

The Shaping of Somali Society. 1982. L. Cassanelli.

Somalia: Nation in Search of a State. 1987. D. Laitin and S. Samatar.

Vulnerable Minorities in Somalia and Somaliland. 1995. B. Helander.

Three oral sources did not provide information on the topic requested.