Habr Awal
Videos
Page
The Habr Awal, also contemporarily known as the Awal, and alternately known as the Zubeyr Awal is a major Northern Somali clan of the wider Isaaq clan family, and is further divided into eight sub-clans of whom the two largest and most prominent are the Issa Musa and Sa'ad Musa sub-clans. Its members form a part of the Habar Magadle confederation.
Ahmad Bin Abi Bakr, Emir of Harar and ally of the Habr Awal
Sheikh Madar (right), the founding father of modern Hargeisa, photographed in 1912 by Ralph E Brockman
Somaliland Flying for the first time: The White and Blue Somali Flag at the Independence Celebrations on 26 June 1960 Prime Minister Egal of the State of Somaliland salutes the flag.
Colonel Muse Bihi Abdi, Current President of Somaliland since December 2017, and former military officer who served as a Somali Air Force pilot before defecting to the SNM in the mid-1980s where he commanded rebel forces.
Ishaaq bin Ahmed
Videos
Page
Sheikh Ishaaq bin Ahmed bin Muhammad, more commonly known as Sheikh Ishaaq or Sheikh Isaaq was a scholar that crossed the sea from Arabia to the Horn of Africa and the Sayyid forefather of the Isaaq Somali clan-family in the Horn of Africa, whose traditional territory is wide and densely populated.
Tomb of Sheikh Ishaaq in Maydh, Sanaag, Somaliland