Sentence examples for minority clans from inspiring English sources

Twenty of the women's seats are assigned to the four major clans and the remaining five to the minority clans.

Many of those displaced in 2011 were agriculturalists from minority clans who had been living in normally fertile areas.

In fact, the famine back then was in the same area of Somalia, the lower third, home to powerless minority clans that often bear the brunt of this country's chronic troubles.

Certainly his attempt to align all the Hmong clans with the US military and its war strategy divided his people, with the Hmong tribal minority clans fighting on both sides, for and against the communist-led Pathet Lao movement.

And so the seats in the assembly have been divided up by the four major clans, along with some seats for minority clans and 25 seats reserved for women.

Minority clans like the Yibir, Midgan and Tomal will have 24 seats, if the assembly is ever translated from a nice idea at a peace conference here in neighboring Djibouti to an actual government in Somalia, which has been without one since 1991.

It has seen multiple peaceful handovers of power, including to a minority clan.

Seven Somali natives filed the lawsuit in 2004 against the former prime minister, Mohamed Ali Samantar, 76, of Fairfax, saying he ordered the killings and torture of members of a minority clan.

At the time of the marriage between Rafohy and Manelobe, the Hova were a minority clan who had recently moved into the Vazimba-dominated highlands from their ancestral homeland in the southeast.

They are members of an ambiguous ethnosocial class often referred to as "the minority clan," because their actual name, Midgaan, which encompasses the Timal, Yibir, Gaboye, and other groups, doubles as an insult.

Some people came to chase us away from our house because we were a minority clan (Madiban).