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	Ajuran - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Ajuran (also Ajuuraan or Ujuuraan) is a Somali clan.
		The Ajuran live throughout the Horn of Africa, and may be found in Somalia, eastern Ethiopia, and northwest Kenya.
		The Ajuran are best known in Somali history for establishing the Gareen dynasty based in Qalaafo (now part of Ethiopia).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Ajuran (148 words)

	Mudulood PageA
		The Ajuran are one of the six Somali tribes living in the northeastern portion of Africa.
		The moving patterns of the Ajuran are dependent on the unpredictable grazing region and climate of the area in which they live.
		Although the Ajuran are staunch Muslims, few of them have a deep understanding of their faith.
	www.mudulood.com /PageMudafter1960.html (5333 words)

	Life In The Shadow Of Bandit Attacks
		Tension had been running high among the Ajuran and the Garri comunities following an attack in which 20 or so houses belonging to the Ajuran were razed and three people killed.
		When the location was created, according to the DC, a chief and a councillor from neighbouring Mandera District "overshot" their area of jurisdiction and attempted to settle the Garri in the far-flung area situated to the south west of Mandera town.
		The Ajuran, on their part, allegedly responded by forging an alliance with the Oromo Liberation Front rebels fighting the Ethiopian government.
	www.oromia.org /News/Life_in_the_shadow_of_bandit_attacks.htm (1476 words)

	Unerreichte Volksgruppen - Die Ajuran in Kenia
		Viele der Ajuran sind zweisprachig; sie sprechen sowohl ihre Muttersprache (Garreh-Ajuran) und Somalisch, einige sprechen auch Swahili.
		Der Reichtum der meisten Ajuran liegt in ihrer Kamel-, Rinder-, Ziegen- oder Schafherde.
		dass starke Gemeinden vor Ort unter den Ajuran errichtet werden.
	www.volksgruppen.de /dbweb/volk.php?v_id=52 (781 words)

	Welcome To HORN OF AFRICA
		the war between the gare and ajkuran clansmen flared in the year 2000 when the ajuran attempted to stop the gare from grazing their animals in Irestinoin wajior north constituency in which over 50 lives were lost.
		PC Mwasserah reiterated that a long standing solution was to be found to the constant tensions pitting the gare against the ajuran adding that the mps as elected leaders should lead the road to peace and not incite the residents.
		Wajir north MP Dr. Abdulahi Abdi queried the wrong stance taken by the mandera MPs voiucing fears that the rejection of the police post could be because it was a suspected entry point for small arms used illegally in the country and in the gare-ajuran clans war.
	www.hananews.org /WholeArticle.asp?artId=3188 (506 words)

	Daily Nation On the Web
		As a member of the Ajuran clan in Wajir District and an elder, I wish to state that we are interested only in peace and development, not inter-clan wars that benefit nobody.
		But all that the Ajuran are interested in is development, not costly wars.
		That is why I support the recent peace talks by the leaders of the Ajuran and Garreh communities, during which they resolved to bury their differences.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/07022001/Letters/Letters10.html (317 words)

	Situation Report on Region 2 (Afar National Regional State)
		The triumph of the Digodia was due to their support of the ruling KANU party, while the despondent Ajuran supported the opposition FORD party which did badly in the election.
		The Ajuran refugees have confirmed that the circumstances which led to their displacement in 1993 have long elapsed and no fighting is currently ongoing between them and the rival Digodia in Wajer district.
		Although the refugees sound confident that they can secure the approval of the local Ajurans to be settled at Godoma, there is still a need to confirm that the Ajurans are willing to accommodate their kinsmen.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /eue_web/kenya96sep.htm (2256 words)

	Daily Nation On the Web
		He was addressing a reconciliation meeting between the Ajuran and the Gare at the Wajir Girls Secondary on Saturday.
		The Ajuran are believed to have hired the services of the Oromo Liberation Front while the Gare were allegedly backed by Ethiopian forces in feuding that has claimed more than 60 lives.
		The feud between the two clans is believed to be caused by boundary disputes and political differences.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/07082000/News/News11.html (174 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:ggh
		The Ajuran in Kenya speak Somali as second language.
		Swahili is also used, and some can also speak the Garre of Somalia, which their ancestors spoke.
		In Somalia (not Kenya), the Ajuran ethnic group speak a variety of Common Somali as first language, and the Garre ethnic group apparently speak a language related to Somali.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=ggh (87 words)

	Joshua Project - Printable Profiles
		The Ajuran belong to a cluster of peoples known as the Somali, who are scattered across northeastern Africa and the Middle East.
		The members of a clan are very loyal to each other, spreading out to ensure that there is enough land and water for all of their herds.
		Ajuran women lead very difficult lives, usually being treated no better than slaves.
	www.joshuaproject.net /print.php?rog3=KE&rop3=100175 (755 words)

	madhibaan.org
		A woman who is subjected to rape face entrenched social attitude and tradition that hamper their family relation in the long run.
		IDPs in the north are originally from the sub clans from the south such as Rahaween, Bantu, Ajuran, Jarso, Madhiban and Ashraf.
		They lack the political power and protection of the dominant sub clans of the north and they are vulnerable to personal insecurity, access to income generating opportunities and political representation.
	www.madhibaan.org /news/news-post-03-01-1.htm (1389 words)

	Prayer Advocate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Ajuran people need someone to champion their cause as their Prayer Advocate.
		A Prayer Advocate serves to enlist other prayer warriors in the spiritual battle for the salvation of the Ajuran people.
		The darkness of their world must be pierced by the light of Christ.
	www.peopleteams.org /ajuran/prayer_advocate.htm (188 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		There are about 43,100 Ajuran living in the very arid northern section of Kenya.
		99.9% of the Ajuran are Muslim, of the Shafiite Muslim group.
		The Ajuran look down upon people who work with their hands, and the craftsmen among them are considered a part of the lower class.
	www.nubianvoyage.com /Ajuran.html (331 words)

	Daily Nation On the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The raids come in the wake of a peace agreement signed at the weekend by Ajuran and Gare clansmen during a provincial leaders' conference in Wajir town.
		He said he could not confiscated livestock belonging to the Gare as resolved at the leaders conference, following the raids on the Ajuran who also lost some of their animals.
		Mr Mutsami said it was sad that the feuding clans did not heed their leaders call for peace and harmonious co-existence.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/11082000/News/News87.html (282 words)

	Situation Reports: East Africa Drought, Internally displaced persons: Combined report on Somalia, Situation Reports: ...
		IDPs in the north are mostly agriculturalists that belong to sub clans from the south including Rahanweyn, Ajuran, Jarso, Madhiban and Ashraf and the minority group, Bantu.
		These are displaced communities that fled their home territories due to civil conflict and severe drought conditions, or both, and have found themselves in northern towns throughout northwest and northeast Somalia.
		Only 9percent of households in Haryan and Ajuran camps generate income from service and market oriented jobs, and there are no families that are engaged in trade dominated by the Isaak sub-clans of Haber Younis and Haber Jaalo.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/480fa8736b88bbc3c12564f6004c8ad5/6418b7c74bc1a57dc1256c0c0044ac89?OpenDocument (15384 words)

	A Summary of the Cushite Peoples of Eastern Africa
		The Garreh and Ajuran maintain an identity with the Garreh, their parent people in the Somali confederation.
		The Ajuran also speak Somali, and Swahili is a common second language for both peoples.
		In Somalia the Ajuran speak a variety of Common Somali as mother tongue, and the Garre apparently speak a language related to Somali.
	strategyleader.org /articles/cushite.html (4925 words)

	Kenya Somali Community of North America
		Sources in Wajir trace the build-up to the massacre to clashes between the Ajuran and Degodia clans.
		But while the Ajurans surrendered the guns, the Degodia did not.
		The minister traced the problems which led to the massacre to an incident in January of that year in which an Ajuran woman was raped by men she identified as Degodia near Eldaas.
	www.kenyasomalis.org /Wag-airstrip-report.htm (2328 words)

	Hobyo Information
		Hobyo was the commercial centre of the Ajuran Sultanate, based in Qalafo (modern Ethiopia).
		All the commercial goods grown or harvested along the Shabelle river were brought to Hobyo to trade, as Hobyo remained the active mercantile pitstop of ancient times.
		The Ajuraan rulers collected their tribute from the town in the form of sorghum (durra), and the port of Hobyo was incredibly profitable for the Ajuran sultans.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Hobyo (1392 words)

	Middle East Online
		Gelidle, Ajuran sub-clans fight for 12 hours in Dinsoor as elders demand unconditional ceasefire.
		MOGADISHU - At least 18 people were killed and several wounded when rival sub-clans clashed in southwestern Somalia, elders said Thurday.
		The Gelidle and Ajuran sub-clans fought for about 12 hours Wednesday in Dinsoor, about 270 kilometers (170 miles) west of the capital when one group refused to hand over an individual wanted by their rivals for an unknown misdeed, they said.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/Default.pl?id=20357 (229 words)

	Response
		According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) the Sheikal and Ajuran belong to the major clan Hawiye.
		According to OCHA the Ajuran belong to the major clan Hawiye.
		In UNHCR's list on the clan structure, the Ajuran (also named Meqare) and the Hawiye are both listet as subclans of the Irir.
	www.ecoi.net /file_upload/response_en_63347.html (3722 words)

	The Demise of Mahdi and the Delight of Boy
		The ruling family then changed to the Fakhr Al Din family, who established a dynasty and later succeeded by the Muzaffars and the title of the ruler had changed from Shaikh to Sultan.
		The Muzafars allied with the Ajuran, after the city declined economically and in oblivion due to wars in the oceans.
		Thus, unlike the purely nomadic and wild clans with no traditional civility for rule of law, has to support the reinstement of law and order and system of government without fear of repercussion.
	www.somaliawatch.org /archiveoct00/001005202.htm (1719 words)

	Ajuran - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Ajuran (or Ajuuraan) are a Somali clan sometimes counted amoung the Hawiye and viewed by some as a separate clan family unto itself.
		The Ajuuraan live throughout east Africain Somalia, eastern Ethiopia, and north-west Kenya.
		The Gareen dynasty ruled parts of east Africa from the 1500th to the 20th centry.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=1676081 (116 words)

	The EastAfrican
		He says the 1992 election, which saw him and his family seek safety in Ethiopia was marked by a lot of tension between the Degodia, Ajuran and the Ougadan Somali clans of Northern Kenya.
		The Ajuran, who are the majority in Wajir West, wanted the seat to go to one of their own and not to a Degodia.
		The massacres and raids between the Degodia and Ajuran over tribal dominance in Wajir also spread to Marsabit, forcing many people there to seek safety in neighbouring Ethiopia.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/EastAfrican/18122000/Features/Magazine2.html (1315 words)

	Cloudburst Media \| Documentary Filmmaking
		"Camels Through The Badlands" is a story about interdependence and trust between three Somalis from the Ajuran clan, a Samburu tribesman, two Englishmen and eleven camels from the barren foothills of southern Ethiopia.
		A Somali from the Ajuran clan, and member of the previous expedition, Ahmed is a tireless and cheerful leader who is an inspiration to all.
		A Somali from the Ajuran Clan he stood a lean five foot ten inches tall and exuded personal warmth and strength in equal measure.
	www.cloudburst.org /kenya.html (1117 words)

	SomaliNet Forums • View topic - The Great Hawiye Empire
		The Ajuran Sultanate ruled the Juba during the 14/15/16th century.
		the Somali tribe Hawiya, called that of the Ajuran, succeeded in becoming masters of the territory between the lower courses of the Webi and the Juba"
		Another interesting information to add is that the Mareexaan sultanate occupied the places Sool, Sanaag and Nugaal in the 17/18th century before the emergence of the Majerteen sultanate.
	www.somalinet.com /forum/viewtopic.php?p=1093699 (289 words)

	index
		By the late 13th century the Arab-influenced Hawiye Somali clan, which had expanded from the Shebelle region toward the coast, assumed political leadership in the coastal region between Itala and Merka.
		A related clan, the Ajuran, established a sultanate in the fertile Shebelle basin, trading with the coastal cities.
		The political unit that developed in the interior from the 13th century onward—and that forms a prototype for contemporary political structures—was the diya-paying group.
	members.cox.net /asahal/Somalia.htm (3626 words)

	A Summary of the Cushite Peoples of Eastern Africa
		The Garreh and Ajuran maintain an identity with the Garreh, their parent people in the Somali confederation.
		They maintain relationshiips to some extent with the Garreh in Somalia, and some also speak Garreh, the original language of both, which is related to Somali.
		The Ajuran also speak Somali, and Swahili is a common second language for both peoples.
	endor.hsutx.edu /~obiwan/articles/cushite.html (4925 words)

	World Mission Centre \| Christian Mission Organization - mission centre, mission centres, mission centre south africa, ...
		"The Ajuran is a sub-clan of the Somali people group and is found in the Northeastern Province of Kenya on the border with Somalia.
		They are mostly pastoralists and trade amongst themselves and on the market in Nairobi.
		The Ajuran are a proud people, inward looking, and isolated from the other groups.
	www.worldmissioncentre.com /AJURAN.html (342 words)

	Ajuran
		The Ajuran (also Ajuuraan or Ujuuraan) is a Somali clan.
		The Ajuran live throughout the Horn of Africa, and may be found in Somalia, eastern Ethiopia, and northwest Kenya.
		The Ajuran are best known in Somali history for establishing the Gareen dynasty based in Qalaafo (now part of Ethiopia).
	ajuran.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Ajuran (797 words)

	Special Section: Paths to Peace: Kenyan women lead peace effort
		It served as a gathering place for people who had been shepherds and herders for centuries, and over the last 20 years, had collected in the area to lessen the impact of drought and war.
		With thousands in town, tensions were high between the three long-disputing clans -- the Ogaden, Degodia and Ajuran.
		Following the first multiparty national elections in Kenya in 1992, violence broke out between the Ogaden and Degodia, who had been political rivals in the election.
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/042602/042602p.htm (1257 words)

	The history of ethnicity in Kenya
		Like the clashes in the Rift Valley in 1992, the current unrest over a land dispute is seen as part of a deliberate attempt to force the Kikuyu, who tend to support the opposition, from the from the area.
		The skirmishes occurred when more than 100 heavily armed bandits, believed to be from the Garre clan of Wajir North district attacked their neighbours, the Ajuran pastoralists at Bambaa Wednesday.
		The incident comes barely two weeks after militiamen attacked a group of pastoralists killing eight persons before fleeing with over 100 animals.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/36/index-bef.html (275 words)

	Ethio-Kenya Relations on Trial
		The other view is the tension along the border might have been caused by rival clans in both countries who freely foray into territory on either side of the border, either to support their kins, or in persuit of rival clans.
		This appears to be plausable, considering a report by the Daily Nation, which quoted Kenyan MP Abdulahi Ali as saying: "Clan difference between the Ajuran and the Gare have been taken over by the Ethiopian militia".
		The Gare are also found in that region of Ethiopia.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2001/02/02-02-01/Ethio.htm (747 words)

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