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Looming Jubaland clash of clans casts shadow over Northern Kenya 

Kenya Defence Forces in Somalia.

Kenya Defence Forces soldiers under Africa Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) patrol Kismayo town on November 22, 2015. 

Photo credit: File | Nation Media Group

By  Peter Kagwanja

Columnist

Somalia is often imagined as “a nation in search of a state’’—perhaps the only one of its kind in Africa.

This narrative downplays the role of clans in Somali politics. In reality, Somalia is a tale of clans in search of both a nation and a state.

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