Somalia has been at war since 1991, when clan-based militias ousted.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It's a clan-based society where many arguments are resolved with bullets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somalia's Prime Minster Resigns Amid Tensions] Reference

Somalia, where clan-based factions cannot agree on the future of the state.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Rival clan-based militia have since divided the country into armed fiefdoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

IDPs: 375,000 (civil war since 1988, clan-based competition for resources) (2004).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

IDPs: 400,000 (civil war since 1988, clan-based competition for resources) (2006).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

It's a family-based, clan-based society, and they're not going to make that break.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2002] Reference

So, can these clan-based building blocks ensure sustainable security and stability?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abukar Arman: Somalia, US, and the Dual-Track Letdown] Reference

Somalia pirates operate in diffuse, clan-based networks, from havens along the coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Captain Tries to Escape From Sea Pirates] Reference

Oakley and members of the Somali National Alliance, Aidid's clan-based political group.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

SomaliaIDPs: 400,000 (civil war since 1988, clan-based competition for resources) (2006).    From Wordnik.com.  [Refugees and internally displaced persons] Reference

The clan-based assembly over which he presided sacked him only weeks after he took office.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Most disturbing to me, however, is that we seem to be moving in the direction of a clan-based culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D.: Are We Moving Toward a Clan Society?] Reference

They then turned on each other, dividing the nation of 7 million into a patchwork of clan-based fiefdoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

I think one of the big problems in Africa is the continuance of tribalism, which is clan-based collectivism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thinking vs. Feeling, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

The bottom line is that the US military is now being used as an "enforcer" in tribal and clan-based disputes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The corporate media cover-up of the Najaf massacre] Reference

The troops were led by a Somali parliament member, Barre Hirale, who has led a clan-based militia in the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somali Goverment Takes Border Town From Militants] Reference

African nation in disarray since clan-based warlords overthrew a dictator in 1991 and then turned on each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Somalia has been plagued by chaos and clan-based civil war since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was toppled in 1991.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Somalia has not had a functioning government since clan-based warlords toppled dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Somalia's complex, clan-based political system required that the next prime minister be a member of the Darod tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somali Americans return to help motherland] Reference

Somalia has been without a central government since clan-based warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Somalia has not had a central government since January 1991 when clan-based fighting spread after the ouster of dictator.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

This is one trap, but being in this trap represents a clan-based society, or a chiefdom if one clan can assert dominance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture, Capitalism, and Freedom, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Refugees and internally displaced persons: IDPs: 400,000 (civil war since 1988, clan-based competition for resources) (2006).    From Wordnik.com.  [Somalia] Reference

"Choosing him from another clan will get us to the next stage," Mr. Ahmed said -- one that moves beyond clan-based politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somali Leader Asks Groups to Disarm] Reference

Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: IDPs: 1.1 million (civil war since 1988, clan-based competition for resources) (2007).    From Wordnik.com.  [Somalia] Reference

Nobody would pretend that restoring order in such a poverty-stricken, clan-based society will be anything but fiendishly difficult.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

A U.N. arms embargo imposed in 1992 has been widely ignored, and continuing instability and clan-based fighting has kept the United.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

After former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was driven from power in January 1991, the country fragmented into small, clan-based fiefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [In The Grip Of 'The Poor Man's War'] Reference

The opposition leaders turned on each other, reducing Somalia to a patchwork of fiefdoms ruled by heavily armed clan-based factions.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Siad Barre was ousted in 1991, touching off a deadly clan-based power struggle that has defied numerous efforts to restore stability.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The world may simply be tired of responding to trouble in Somalia, which has been in crisis since clan-based warlords toppled dictator.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Russia's legislation to ring-fence the "strategic sectors" of the economy provides a compelling example of clan-based interests at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Amsterdam: Clan Politics Unite Caracas, Moscow, and Tehran] Reference

The opposition leaders then fought with each other, turning the nation of 7 million into battling fiefdoms ruled by clan-based factions.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

All of the existing clan-based organizations claim influential figures in the island's past.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jakarta Post Breaking News] Reference