After its battlefield defeat, it’s unclear if the Islamic State in Somalia retains the ability to extort money from the ...

What held Somalia together—and sometimes drove it apart—was its elaborate clan system. The five principal clan families, Darod, Dir, Isaaq (sometimes considered a Dir subclan), Hawiye ...

Clan Politics and Fahad Yasin’s Position Fahad Yasin hails from Beesha Shanaad (the fifth clan) under Somalia’s 4.5 clan power-sharing system. Unlike traditional political elites who rely on ...

For Somalia though, a new system, just as in the existing system, provides existential challenges. There are no political parties and most political games are run on clan-based influences.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - The death toll from an al Shabaab attack on a hotel in central Somalia where clan leaders were meeting on Tuesday has risen to 10 and most of the victims were civilians ...