Dir (clan) - Political Groups

Political Groups

Political groups associated with the Dir clans include the following groups in Somalia and Ethiopia:

  • Front for the Liberation of Djibouti
  • Gurgura Liberation Front led by Abdelasis Ahmed
  • Western Somali Liberation Front, led by Abdi Ismail and representing the Gadabursi
  • Horyel Democratic Party, also representing the Gadabursi
  • Issa and Gurgura Liberation Front of Ethiopia.
  • Somali Democratic Alliance of the Gadabursi Dir clan.
  • Southern Somali National Movement of the mostly Mohamed Xiniftire Dir Clans (Biamal and Gadsan) of Jubba, Gedo, Bardheere, and Shabeellaha Hoose region.
  • Democratic Liberation Front supported Central Somalia Dir groups.
  • Alliance Ahlusunna Wal-jam'a in central Somalia (Fiqi Mohamed)

Read more about this topic:  Dir (clan)

Famous quotes containing the words political and/or groups:

    “The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favor of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.”
    —Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)