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Somalia: Information on the Balcad or Bal'ad subclan of the Darod whose traditional homelands are with the Ogaden in the nomadic area near Kismayo

Publisher Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Author Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada
Publication Date 1 October 1995
Citation / Document Symbol SOM22049.E
Cite as Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Somalia: Information on the Balcad or Bal'ad subclan of the Darod whose traditional homelands are with the Ogaden in the nomadic area near Kismayo, 1 October 1995, SOM22049.E, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6aba274.html [accessed 31 December 2015]
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Information on this subject could not be found among the sources consulted by the DIRB.

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 sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Sources Consulted

Africa Confidential. 1995.

Africa Report. 1995.

Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series. 1995.

DIRB Country File. 1995.

Horn of Africa Bulletin. 1995.

The Indian Ocean Newsletter. 1995.

Modern History of Somalia: Nation and State in the Horn of Africa. 1988.

New African. 1995.

The Price of Peace: Somalia and the United Nations Operation. September 1994.

Profile of Asylum Claims and Country Conditions. 1995.

Shaping Somali Society. 1982

Somalia: A Country Study. 1993.

Somalia: A Nation in Turmoil. 1991.

Somalia Faces the Future: Human Rights in a Fragmented Society. April 1995.

Victims and Vulnerable Groups in Southern Somalia. May 1995.

Oral sources.

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