Darod

Map of the Somali area with the different clans; the Darod areas in light ocher.

The Darod ( Somali : Darod , partly Banu Dawud called) are a clan of Somaliland . They make up about 20 to 25% of Somalia's population . Depending on the source, the Darod or the Hawiye are given as numerically the largest Somali clan.

They live mainly in northeast Somalia in the Horn of Africa region ( Puntland ), in the Ethiopian Somali region ( Ogaden ) and in Jubaland and the adjacent northeast Kenya . Darod subclans include a.

• Harti
  • Dolbohanta (Dhulbahante)
  • Warsangeli
  • Majerteen
  • Dashiishe
• Ogadeni
• Marehan
• Awrtable
• Leelkase.
• Ormo

The progenitor of the Darod is said to have been the Muslim patriarch Sheikh Daarood Jabarti, who married the local patriarch's daughter Doombira Dir after the year 1000.

See also

• Somali clan system

Known Darod

• Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (1856–1920), insurgent leader against the British, Italians and Ethiopians in the early 20th century
• Fadumo Korn (* 1964), writer, refugee rights activist, activist against female circumcision
• Waris Dirie (* 1965), model and activist against female circumcision
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali (* 1969), critic of Islam
• Abdirashid Ali Shermarke (1919–1969), first Prime Minister, President 1967–1969
• Siad Barre (1919–1995), President and dictator of Somalia from 1969 to 1991
• Siad Hersi , Barres' son-in-law, warlord in the Somali civil war
• Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (1934–2012), President of the Somali Transitional Government 2004–2008
• Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke (* 1960), Prime Minister since 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Somalia / clan structures. Federal Foreign Office, November 2017, accessed on 23 January 2018 . 
2. ^ Countrystudies.us: Somalia - Coastal Towns