For information on the current situation in northeastern Somalia, the Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF) and therefore the Majerteen and the Omar Mahmoud subclan, please refer to the attachments. Also, for information on the possibility of internal flight alternatives (IFA) in northeastern Somalia, please refer to Response to Information Request SOM19135.E of 7 December 1994. This document is currently 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.

Africa Confidential [London]. 7 October 1994. "Somalia: Warlords Restored." (DIRB country file)

_____. 23 September 1994. "Somalia: Goodbye to the West." (DIRB country file)

Bureau for Humanitarian Response, Office of the US Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA). 30 June 1994. "Somalia Civil Strife," pp. 2-5.

_____. 15 October 1993. Situation Report No. 22. "Somalia Civil Strife," pp. 1-4.

The Indian Ocean Newsletter [Paris]. 29 October 1994. "Aideed's 'G12' Somalia." (DIRB country file)

_____. 22 October 1994. "Somalia." (DIRB country file)

_____. 8 October 1994. "Somalia: Epistle to Boutros-Ghali." (DIRB country file)

_____. 17 September 1994. "Somalia: Bosaso Thrives on Ransom." (DIRB country file)

_____. 10 September 1994. "Notes: Abdirizak Haji Hussein (Somalia)," p. 8.

_____. 3 September 1994. No. 637. "Somalia: High-wire Fishing." (DIRB country file)

_____. 3 September 1994. "Abdulahi Yussuf Ahmed (Somalia) (DIRB country file)

_____. 3 September 1994. "Somalia: End of SSDF Congress." (DIRB country file)

_____. 27 August 1994. "Somalia: Waiting for the SSDF Congress." (DIRB country file)

_____. 23 July 1994. "Somalia: North-East at Boiling Point." (DIRB country file)

_____. 25 June 1994. No. 629. "Somalia: Northern Congress, Southern Accord," p. 4.

_____. 26 February 1994. No. 612. "Harti Alliance Sponsored by UN," p. 5.

Menkhaus, Ken. September 1994. "Trip Report Somalia." Stockholm: Swedish Life and Peace Institute, pp. 1-18.

Reuters. 15 February 1994. BC Cycle. Buchizya Mseteka. "Northeast Somalia at Peace but Seeks Better Life." (NEXIS)

Somalia News Update [Uppsala]. 22 November 1994. Vol. 3, No. 26. "Escort Services Offered: US Troops Heading Back to Somalia?," pp. 1-5.

_____. 11 October 1994. Vol. 3, No. 25. "Critique of the 'Report by the Secretary-General the Situation in Somalia, 17 September 1994'," pp. 1-6.