About 300,000 ethnic Somali Kenyans live in Kenya, and their main clans are Daarood, Dir, Hawiye and Ogaadeen (Ethnologue 1992, 285). While Inter Press Service puts the number at 380,000 people and mentions the Ajuran and Degodia as clans of Kenya's ethnic Somalis (12 Apr. 1994; ibid. 12 July 1993), Kenya: A Quest for Prosperity names only the Darood and Hawiye (1994, 167). Somali-Kenyans make up 2.29 per cent of the Kenyan population and they are primarily found in the North Eastern Province (Encyclopedia of the Third World 1992, 970). For further information on Somali-Kenyans and their clans, please refer to the attachments from The Shaping of Somali Society and State of the Peoples.

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.

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