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Somalia: Treatment of the Darod sub-clan Geri Kombo, by other Darod sub-clans as well as any other clans; and areas in which the Geri Kombo reside

Publisher Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Author Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada
Publication Date 3 October 2002
Citation / Document Symbol SOM39969.E
Reference 7
Cite as Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Somalia: Treatment of the Darod sub-clan Geri Kombo, by other Darod sub-clans as well as any other clans; and areas in which the Geri Kombo reside, 3 October 2002, SOM39969.E, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/3f7d4e1f7.html [accessed 8 January 2017]
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No reports on the Geri Kombo, sub-clan of the Darod clan, could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.

For information on the Geri, please consult SOM35796.E of 8 December 2000. For information on the Darod, please consult SOM37930.E of 29 October 2001, as well as other Responses on the same topic available in REFINFO.

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

Africa Confidential

Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series

Hagi, Aves Osman and Abdiwahid Osman Hagi. 1998. Clan, Sub-Clan and Regional Representation in the Somali Government Organization 1960-1990: Statistical Data and Findings. Washington, DC.

Horn of Africa Bulletin

Gilkes, Patrick. September 1994. The Price of Peace: Somalia and the United Nations

The Indian Ocean Newsletter

IRB Databases

Keesing's Record of World Events

LEXIS/NEXIS

Internet sites including:

All Africa News

Reliefweb

UNHCR

Search engines including:

Google

Mamma

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