SUMMARY
The Duduble sub-clan of the Gorgorte clan is a third tier of the Hawiye clan of Somalia. The Hawiye is one of Somalia’s largest clan families representing an estimated 25% of the country’s total population. Members of the clan family mainly reside in central and southern parts of Somalia (Mudug and the Benadir regions), but large numbers can also be found in neighboring countries such as Kenya and Ethiopia. The Hawiye played a major role in the ousting of former president Siad Barre, as the main rebel group that eventually succeeded in overthrowing him, USC (United Somali Congress), was primarily based among this clan. The Hawiye clan is relatively powerful in economic terms due to a large community in Mogadishu. The rural based Hawiye are commonly also involved in lucrative trade, but are also pastoralist. Many of the clans and sub-clans of the Hawiye clan family have remained influential in Somalia.
The Hawiye clan is divided into several sub-clans, such as the Gorgorte, which is a relatively large sub-clan. The Gorgorte clan is divided into several smaller sub-clans, one of these being the Duduble. This sub-clan, like many others in Somalia, has constructed its own militia and engaged in non-state conflicts with rivalling non-state actors in the chaotic environment that followed on Siad Barre’s fall from power in 1991. The prevailing context of political rivalries in Somalia in the 1990s and 2000s is the clan, or shifting clan alliances.
Members of the Duduble sub-clan reside mainly in the Galgaduud region of central Somalia.
When the Islamic courts phenomenon appeared in Somalia around the mid-1990s the Duduble sub-clan was quick to establish its own court, creating such a system around 1998-1999. The sub-clan thus, like many other Hawiye clans, became linked to the rise of the Supreme Islamic Council of Somalia (SICS) which engaged the transitional government in armed conflict in 2006.
The Duduble sub-clan of the Gorgorte (Hawiye) has been involved in the non-state category of UCDP organised violence.
