No mention of the Nalaye Ahmed could be found among the sources, including LEXIS/NEXIS and the Internet, consulted by the Research Directorate.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate 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 sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Sources Consulted

Cassanelli, Lee V. 1982.

The Shaping of Somali Society: Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People 1600-1900.

Danish Immigration Service. Report on the Nordic Fact-Finding Mission to Central and Southern Somalia 15 February-14 March 1997.

The Invention of Somalia. 1995. Edited by Ali Jimale Ahmed.

Laitin, David D. and Said S. Samatar. 1987. Somalia: Nation in Search of A State.

Lewis, Ioan M. 1994. Blood and Bone: The Call of Kinship in Somali Society.

The Price of Peace: Somalia and the United Nations 1991-1994. 1994. Save the Children Fund UK.

The Somali Challenge: From Catastrophe to Renewal? 1994. Edited by Ahmed I. Samatar.

Somalia: A Country Study.

Electronic sources: IRB databases, FBIS, Global NewsBank, Internet, LEXIS/NEXIS, REFWORLD, WNC.

Three oral sources consulted did not provide information on the requested subject.