Somalia: The Nalaye Ahmed and conditions in the part of the country where they live
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 April 1998 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | SOM29244.E |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Somalia: The Nalaye Ahmed and conditions in the part of the country where they live, 1 April 1998, SOM29244.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ac5b1e.html [accessed 22 May 2023] |
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According to a specialist on Somalia and representative of the Center for Strategic Initiatives of Women, a Washington DC-based non-governmental organization concerned with women's rights and development in the Horn of Africa, the Nalaye Ahmed live in Las Anod and Erigavo, and they are a sub-clan of the Dulbuhante (3 Apr. 1998).
The Internet Website of Actionaid, a British non-governmental organization which is involved in development projects in 18 developing countries including the Sanaag region in Somalia, where Erigavo is located, states that the Sanaag region is
... home to 300,000 Somali people who are mainly pastoralists, [and] is one of the least developed in Somaliland. ... Communications are almost non-existent. There is one hospital in Erigavo and no formal education services. The population are pastoral nomads. Frankincense is cultivated on the slopes of the northern escarpment of the Gollis mountains (ibid.).
In 1996 Actionaid provided transportation services to facilitate a series of peace meetings in Sanaag which led to a peace charter and conflict resolution committees (ibid.). Actionaid has also installed a water distribution system in Erigavo (ibid.) [the Actionaid Website is not dated, but no year later than 1996 is mentioned].
Information on Las Anod, beyond that found in Response to Information Request SOM29112.E of 3 April 1998, could not be found among the sources 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.
References
Actionaid [Internet]. < http://www.actionaid.org/ > [Accessed on 7 Apr. 1998]
Center for Strategic Initiatives of Women, Washington, DC. 3 April 1998. Telephone interview with a representative.
