The Isaaq (Somali: Reer Sheekh Isxaaq, Arabic: بنو إسحاق, Banu Ishaq) is a major Somali clan. [3] It is one of the largest Somali clan families in the Horn of Africa, with a large and densely …

The Isaaq genocide (Somali: Xasuuqii beesha Isaaq; Arabic: الإبادة الجماعية لقبيلة إسحاق), [7] [8] also known as the Hargeisa Holocaust, [8] [9] [10] was the systematic, state-sponsored genocide of …

The Isaaq Sultanate (Somali: Saldanadda Isaaq, Wadaad: سَلْدَنَدْدَ إساقْ, Arabic: السلطنة الإسحاقية) was a Muslim sultanate that ruled parts of the Horn of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The Isaaq (also Isaq, Ishaak, Isaac) is a Somali clan. It is one of the major Somali clans in the Horn of Africa, with a large and densely populated traditional territory.

Formed in 1982, both organizations undertook guerrilla operations from bases in Ethiopia. These pressures, in addition to pressure from Somalia’s Western backers, encouraged Siad to …

Around the 12th or 13th century, Sheikh Isaaq Bin Ahmed Bin Mohammed (Al-Hashimi) Bin Hussein was one of the Arabian scholars who travelled over the sea from Arabia to the Horn of …

Somalia (Isaaq genocide) Between 1960 and 1991, the government of Somalia killed hundreds of thousands of people in the region known as Somaliland in norhteast Somalia. Most belonged …

The Isaaq Genocide constituted a deliberate effort to eliminate the Isaaq community systematically. Employing a range of strategies, the Somalia government executed the …

The consultant’s research uncovered a harrowing account of human rights abuses perpetrated by the Somalia government against the Isaaq people of Somaliland between May and July 1988.

The first 30 years as an independent country were marked by a brutal genocide that almost wiped out one of the original tribes of the region: The Isaaq. The Borgen Project brings to you 10 …