Wardey are a Somali Dir clan found in southern
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐; ar, ุงูุตูู
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Lower Jubba
Lower Juba ( so, Jubbada Hoose, Maay: ''Jubithy Hoosy'', ar, ุฌูุจุง ุงูุณููู, it, Basso Giuba) is an administrative region ('' gobol'') in southern Somalia. With its capital at Kismayo, it lies in the autonomous Jubaland region. It has gre ...
) and eastern
Kenya
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mostly along the
Tana River.
The Wardey Ali are a
pastoralist community. Mostly they live in
Tana River County
Tana River County is a county in the former Coast Province of Kenya. It is named after the Tana River, the longest river in Kenya. It has an area of and a population of 315,943 as of the 2019 census. The county borders Kitui County to the w ...
alongside
Orma communities. The
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...
has a population of about 700,000 people (2022) in Kenya. They speak the
Somali language and practice
Islam.
The wardey clan are a Somali clan in the 19th century migrating into parts of modern-day
Kenya
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taking advantage that the
Wardey were struck by a severe epidemic of smallpox they would inflict severe damages and casualties pushing them away from their homeland and onto the other side of
Tana riverthe wardey lived in qooqani,garseni
Afmadow,kismayo,dhobley,Bangal
They faced a widescale displacement by the
Ogaden and other Somali clans during their migrations into Wardey heartlands west of the Jubba river in the 19th century.
[The Darod Invasion, Richard Turnbull]
References
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Somali clans