The two clans' power, especially that of the Talabanis, from whose party the Change movement was mainly drawn, has been weakened.
For many of them and particularly those in the south, politics is literally a blood sport, with the clans' power and income riding on the outcome of elections.
"There is a lot of concern that clans' power brokers will try to manipulate the whole process, but equally there is a sense of anticipation that something new, something different, is happening in Somalia," he said in an interview in the capital, Mogadishu.
During the investigation, the team is ambushed by the fighter Ash Crimson who plans to get their clans' powers and steals the ones from Chizuru.
And any list of possibilities could reasonably include the ever-interesting Dolan clan, the power behind the Cablevision Systems empire.
Despite the fortune teller's predictions, the Vuong clan's power has been largely dissolved, but the palace has been preserved as a handsome museum.
And according to the Wu-Tang Clan's Power, hip-hop, revitalizing the culture that has sometimes grudgingly sustained it, will be "the narrative voice of the 21st century".
The genius and iuno were probably the male and female forms of the family's, or clan's, power of continuing itself by reproduction, which were in the keeping of the heads of the family for the time being and passed at death to their successors.
For the past six months, protesters have taken to the streets, taken over government buildings and threatened political kidnappings in an attempt to remove the "Shinawatra clan" from power – a reference to the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was deposed by a military coup in 2006 and whose party, or variations of it, have won every election in Thailand since 2001.
