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Document #1045017
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
For general information on the Mahe or Mehe
subclan and the Dir clan, please consult pages 144-148 of The
Price of Peace and the appendix on clan genealogies, which is
available at Regional Documentation Centres. No other information
on the Mahe could be found among the sources consulted by the
DIRB.
For current information on various Dir
subclans, please consult Response to Information Request SML22207.E
of 15 November 1995, which is available at Regional Documentation
Centres, and to the attachments.
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.
Attachments
Agence France Presse [Paris, in French].
15 August 1995. "Somalia: Somaliland's Egal Launches Attacks on
Issa Rebels." (FBIS-AFR-95-158 16 Aug. 1995, p. 7)
BBC World Service [London, in English].
21 September 1995. "Somalia: Fighting Reported Between Egal, Issa
Forces." (FBIS-AFR-95-184 22 Sept. 1995, p. 2)
The Indian Ocean Newsletter
[Paris]. 4 November 1995. No. 692. "Somaliland: Fighting Near
Zeila," p. 4.
_____. 8 April 1995. No. 666.
"Somaliland: Anti-government Attack," p. 2.
_____. 4 February 1995. No. 657.
"Somaliland: Guerissa Region Sees Combat," p. 4.
Additional Sources Consulted
Africa Confidential. 1995.
Africa Research Bulletin.
1995.
Background Paper on Somali Refugees
and Asylum Seekers. 1994. UNHCR.
A Modern History of Somalia.
1988.
The Shaping of Somalia Society.
1982.
Somalia: Building Human Rights in the
Disintegrated State. 1995. Amnesty International.
Somalia: A Country Study.
1993.
Somalia: A Human Rights Disaster.
1992. Amnesty International.
Somalia: The Missed
Opportunities. 1994.
Somalia: Nation in Search of a
State. 1987.
USAID Somalia Situation Reports.
1995.
Victims and Vulnerable Groups in
Southern Somalia. 1995.
Oral sources.
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