Dokument #1152633
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
All Somalis trace their origin to two
mythical brothers, Samaal and Saab (IBRDC March 1990, 12-14). The
descendants of these two brothers constitute six clan-families
(Ibid.) The Sheikel is a sub-clan of the Hawiye, one of the
four major clan-families which belong to the Samaal line
(Ibid.). The Samaal are nomadic or seminomadic pastoralists
(Ibid.). The Hawiye occupy the south-central portions of
Somalia and the city of Mogadishu, the capital, and are probably
the largest or the second largest after the Darood clan (Samatar
1991, 20). For details of the Genealogical Chart of Somalia please
refer to the attached documents.
The United Somali Congress (USC), a largely
Hawiye organization, was constituted in Rome in the last month of
1988 (Samatar 1991, 20). On 27 January 1991, after two weeks of
intense fighting between the government forces and USC rebels units
in Mogadishu, the city fell to Hawiye clansmen under the banner of
the USC (Ibid.). For further information please refer to the
attached documents. Additional and/or corroborating information on
the requested subject could not be found among the sources
currently available to the IRBDC.
Kurian, George, ed. Encyclopedia of
the Third World. 1987. New York: New York, Facts on File,
Inc.
Immigration and Refugee Board
Documentation Centre (IRBDC). March 1990. Somalia: Country
Profile. Ottawa: IRBDC.
New African [London]. November
1991. "Somalia's Political Patchwork."
Samatar, Said S. August 1991.
Somalia: A Nation in Turmoil. April 1991, London: Minority
Rights Group Limited.
Immigration and Refugee Board
Documentation Centre (IRBDC). March 1990. Somalia: Country
Profile. Ottawa: IRBDC.
New African [London]. November
1991. "Somalia's Political Patchwork."
Samatar, Said S. August 1991.
Somalia: A Nation in Turmoil. April 1991, London: Minority
Rights Group Limited.