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Ali Dhuh's most famous contribution to Somali poetry is the Guba poems, a series of poems he initiated after the Habar Yoonis conquest of the Ogaden, in which they uprooted the native Ogadens and took in to possession huge swathes of land and thousands of camels. Historian Siegbert Uhlig commenting on the Guba poem writes the following-[note 1]
Taariikhdii Daraawiishta iyo Sayid Maxamed Cabdulle Xasan (1976) Aw Jama Omar Issa ( Somali : Jaamac Cumar Ciise , Arabic : جامع عمر عيسى ) (c.1922 – 6 January 2014) commonly known as Aw Jaamac , was a Somali scholar, historian and collector of oral literature of Somalia . [ 1 ]
In Berbera, the established Qadiriyya tariqa would soon be challenged by a new tariqa. The most prominent Sheikh of the Salihiyya order were Isma'il ibn Ishaq al-Urwayni and the Dervish emir Hassan (called Mad Mullah by British) who arrived in Berbera in 1895 and constructed his own mosque and began propagating.
Dr. Mukhtar has long been a producer and correspondent of British Broadcasting Corporation BBC, African and Arabic Service as well as the Voice of America VOA. From 1989 to 2003, he is a founding member of Ergada Wadatashiga Somalia (Somali Peace, and Consultation Committee), Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA, and chaired this committee from 1996 ...
The Habar Gidir (Somali: Habar Gidir, Arabic: هبر جدر) is a major subclan of the Hawiye. The clan has produced some prominent Somali figures, including the first Prime Minister of Somalia Abdullahi Issa Mohamud, and Somalia's fifth President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan. [1] [2] The first Prime Minister of Somalia, Abdullahi Issa Mohamud
Abdirahman Yabarow (Somali: Cabdiraxmaan Yabarow, Arabic: عبد الرحمن يابارو) is a Somali journalist. He hails from the Abgaal Hawiye clan. [1] In the early 2000s, Yabarow worked in the UNDP's Documentation Unit. [2] He later served as a Washington, D.C. correspondent for the BBC's Somali service. [3]
The Rahanweyn (Maay: Reewin, Somali: Raxanweyn, Arabic: رحنوين), also known as the Digil and Mirifle (Somali: Digil iyo Mirifle) is a major Somali clan. It is one of the major Somali clans in the Horn of Africa, with a large territory in the densely populated fertile valleys of the Jubba and Shebelle rivers and the areas inbetween, which ...
Somali president and head of Somali Liyu police was arrested after the Tigray regime came to a end in 2018. In 2004, a referendum to decide on the fate of more than 420 Kebeles, the country's smallest administrative unit, saw 80% go to Oromia, leading to Somali minorities fleeing those areas. The Jarso population who resided in the region and ...