For general information on Somalia's other ethnic minorities, please refer to the attachment from Cultural Survival Quarterly.

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.

Cultural Survival Quarterly [Cambridge, Mass.]. Spring 1994. Vol. 18, No. 1. Alex de Waal. "The UN and Somalia's Invisible Minorities," pp. 55-57.