According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Somalia ranks as fourth-lowest in gender equality 41 . Starting with the elections in 2013 there has been a roll-back of reforms adopted after the post-election violence of 20072008,Footnote79 often under the rubric of securitization. She was curious about him and argued that the good thing about him was that he came from the country of her father: from home, from Somalia. ), improved: urban: 84% of populationrural: 48.1% of populationtotal: 58.2% of populationunimproved: urban: 16% of populationrural: 51.9% of populationtotal: 41.8% of population (2020 est. UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Fact Sheet, Kenya (01-31 December 2017). Her mother grew up in Garissa in northeastern Kenya. Although some Kenyan Somalis are part of the socio-economic and political elite of Kenya, they remain trapped in the position of ambiguous citizens, not part of the nation, but also not outside it. )industrial: 300 million cubic meters (2020 est. Changing fortunes in Ethiopia's Ogaden | Features | Al Jazeera 8. Anderson, Remembering Wagalla, 660. 102. note: data are in current year dollars$20.408 billion (2019 est. While she described the first and the third group as being closed, she depicted Kenyan Somalis as open. 105. Many urbanized Somalis did not see their future in Kenya and moved to Europe in the 1990s and 2000s. Ogden, Utah Population 2023 - worldpopulationreview.com Fifty years of abuse and neglect is too long to endure. Theoretical Notes on Gray Cities: The Coming of Urban Apartheid? Although some of these instruments potentially open new spaces for the socio-political involvement of the Somali inhabitants of Kenya, those spaces are constricted by securitization discourses persistent othering of Kenyas Somali communities. Hassan mentioned Islam as the main element linking ethnic Somalis from Kenya and Somalia. )proven reserves: 0 cubic meters (2021 est. ), $11.825 billion (2021 est.) Kenyan Somalis played an increasing (yet still small) role in political administration, as they were seen as neutral, as not connected to one of the influential ethnic groups. Those elected in 2013 included a considerable number of Kenyan Somalis, some assuming important positions in parliament and government. Ambiguous citizens: Kenyan Somalis and . 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Numbering 2.4 million, they were now the sixth biggest ethnic group. 100. 36. The government was unable to respond adequately to the attacks. )-$5.258 billion (2019 est. Somalis in Kenya - Wikipedia Mohammed, from the Dhadhaab (or Dadaab) camp in Kenya, described to Ogaden Online (OO) 1/12/2012 how he was captured by the Ethiopian military, accused of being a supporter of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and mercilessly tortured. 27. the report brings us up to date on a 20 year-old insurgency waged by some Ogadeeni members of the larger ethnic Somali population in parts of the Ogaden region, which stretches across south-eastern Ethiopia and the borders of Kenya and the Somali territories. There had been warnings that were not taken seriously concerning the attacks on the Westgate Mall (2013), the coastal town Mpeketoni close to Lamu (2014), as well as on the Garissa University College (2015).Footnote69 Moreover, when the Kenyan security apparatus reacted, it did so in an incoherent and chaotic way.Footnote70 Instead of improving coordination between the multiple security agencies, political actors responded in the same manner as before by blaming terrorism on Somali refugees in particular and the Somali inhabitants of Kenya in general, externalizing insecurity by utilizing the image of Somalis as ambiguous citizens, ignoring that many of the attackers were neither Kenyan Somalis nor Somali nationals.Footnote71. ), urban population: 29.5% of total population (2023)rate of urbanization: 4.09% annual rate of change (2020-25 est. The heterogeneous Somali population in Kenya can roughly be categorized into four groups. ), number of registered air carriers: 25 (2020)inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 188annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 5,935,831 (2018)annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 294.97 million (2018) mt-km, total: 16over 3,047 m: 52,438 to 3,047 m: 21,524 to 2,437 m: 2914 to 1,523 m: 6under 914 m: 1 (2021), total: 1811,524 to 2,437 m: 14914 to 1,523 m: 107under 914 m: 60 (2021), 4 km oil, 1,432 km refined products (2018), total: 3,819 km (2018)standard gauge: 485 km (2018) 1.435-m gaugenarrow gauge: 3,334 km (2018) 1.000-m gauge, total: 161,452 km (2018)paved: 14,420 km (2017) (8,500 km highways, 1,872 urban roads, and 4,048 rural roads)unpaved: 147,032 km (2017), (2011) none specifically; the only significant inland waterway is the part of Lake Victoria within the boundaries of Kenya; Kisumu is the main port and has ferry connections to Uganda and Tanzania, total: 25by type: oil tanker 3, other 22 (2022), major seaport(s): Kisumu, MombasaLNG terminal(s) (import): Mombasa, Kenya Defense Forces (KDF): Kenya Army, Kenya Navy, Kenya Air Force (2023)note 1: the National Police Service maintains internal security and reports to the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government; it includes a paramilitary General Service Unit and Rapid Deployment Unitnote 2: the Kenya Coast Guard Service (established 2018) is under the Ministry of Interior but led by a military officer and comprised of personnel from the military, as well as the National Police Service, intelligence services, and other government agencies, 1.2% of GDP (2021 est. 15. One Imam in Nakuru,Footnote97 for instance, who was born nearby Garissa, went to a local state primary school and then to different Islamic educational institutes on the coast, in Garissa and in Nairobi. Lochery, Rendering Difference Visible, 617. )transmission/distribution losses: 2.724 billion kWh (2019 est. McIntosh, Autochthony and Family, 265. Mzee Jamal, an old Somali man in Nakuru, told me: They had no place for Somalis in Kenya. A. Abdullahi, Kenyan Somalis are Treated Like Second-class Citizens, Daily Nation, 12 April 2014. http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kenyan-Somalis-treated-like-second-class-citizens-/440808-2277348-pj74alz/index.html. This term can be seen as a derivation from a Somali greeting (Carrier, Little Mogadishu, 81), but also as originating from the english term warrior in contiuation with colonial representations (Abdi, Accidental Citizens, 27). )female: 2.7% (2020 est. 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Eastern Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean, between Somalia and Tanzania, total: 580,367 sq kmland: 569,140 sq kmwater: 11,227 sq km, five times the size of Ohio; slightly more than twice the size of Nevada, total: 3,457 kmborder countries (5): Ethiopia 867 km; Somalia 684 km; South Sudan 317 km; Tanzania 775 km; Uganda 814 km, territorial sea: 12 nmexclusive economic zone: 200 nmcontinental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation, varies from tropical along coast to arid in interior, low plains rise to central highlands bisected by Great Rift Valley; fertile plateau in west, highest point: Mount Kenya 5,199 mlowest point: Indian Ocean 0 mmean elevation: 762 m, limestone, soda ash, salt, gemstones, fluorspar, zinc, diatomite, gypsum, wildlife, hydropower, agricultural land: 48.1% (2018 est. 82. Aminas father came from Baidoa, Somalia, and married her mother in Mombasa in 1990. The majority of ethnic Somalis lived in the eastern half of the Northern Frontier District (NFD),Footnote11 a semi-arid region governed as a closed district by the British, keeping its mainly pastoral inhabitants away from the southern part of the colony.Footnote12 Outside of the Northern Frontier District ethnic Somalis, mainly from British Somaliland, were living in the newly developed towns. Chau, The Fourth Point, 308. Amina, a young woman in her early 20s, was born in Nakuru. [8] In particular, the ONLF operates in Ogaden areas. Register a free Taylor & Francis Online account today to boost your research and gain these benefits: Ambiguous citizens: Kenyan Somalis and the question of belonging, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department Integration and Conflict, Halle (Saale), Germany, Accidental Citizens: Etherealizing Securitized Identities of Somalis in Kenya; Contesting Representation, Identity and Belonging, Marginal Actors? The movement of people from Somalia to Kenya intensified at the end of the 1980s, resulting in new efforts to distinguish citizens from non-citizens. 78. 92. ), 5.325 million NAIROBI (capital), 1.440 million Mombassa (2023), at birth: 1.02 male(s)/female0-14 years: 1.01 male(s)/female15-64 years: 1 male(s)/female65 years and over: 0.84 male(s)/femaletotal population: 1 male(s)/female (2023 est. ), production: 0 cubic meters (2021 est. Due to the years of war and negligence by the Ethiopian government, the quality of life in the Ogaden region has deteriorated. ), total population: 70.04 yearsmale: 68.31 yearsfemale: 71.82 years (2023 est. Its regional capital is Garbahaarreey. The Ogaden contains oil and gas fields, but development has been hampered by instability in the region. Daily Nation, Security laws illegal, declares High Court, 23 February 2015. http://www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Security-laws-illegal-declares-High-Court/1064-2633342-jw2qp1/index.html. Yuval-Davis, Intersectionality, Citizenship, 563. Kenyan Somalis seem to be ambiguous in both of them. 3099067 This was widely celebrated across the Ogadeen population in the Horn of Africa and in the diaspora. By 2050, this number is forecast to almost double, and the country will be home to some 92.6. Weitzberg, We Do Not Have, cautions that also this term implicitly sets Somalis apart from other transnational groups in Kenya (p. 15), for whom nationality is rarely mentioned. Kenya - The World Factbook - CIA )other: 45.8% (2018 est. In Nakuru, Somalis have their own mosque, which is not part of the local Muslim Association, and also their business activities mainly take place within Somali networks. Candidates aimed at maximizing the numbers of their own group, either by registering their voters in their area, or by driving others out.Footnote59 Even though the territorialization of ethnicity already started in colonial times, it was strengthened with re-introducing the multi-party system in 1992, and further intensified with devolution.Footnote60 The 47 county governments furthermore control about 30% of national revenue, divided between them in part according to population size, deepening discussions about the census figures of 2009.Footnote61. This paper deals with the way a politics of belonging has been enacted in recent years in Kenya, and what this means for the Somali population of the country. This move, already planned before 2011, was realized after several kidnappings in the northeastern region in 2011 (see Lind et al., Killing a Mosquito, 4). Before moving to Nakuru as a teenager, he lived in a small town at the coast. This paper is based on research into the interlinkages of different groups of ethnic Somalis in Kenyan urban centres, using the example of Nakuru, the fourth biggest city of Kenya (and to some extent Nairobi and Mombasa). In 1890, Germany and the UK divided up the region, with the UK taking the north and the Germans the south, including present-day Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda. 109. Lochery, Rendering Difference Visible, 616. It was terrible, I became crazy. Even though the High Court nullified parts of the bill, especially those concerned with the freedom of press and a clause limiting the number of refugees in the country to 150,000, most of its sections remain in place.Footnote77 This last step taken by the government indicates that security measures targeting Kenyan Somalis are part of a wider political landscape, encompassing not only the global war on terror,Footnote78 but also changing political structures within Kenya. Burns, Feeling the Pinch; HRW, Death and Disappearances, 14, Lind et al., Killing a Mosquito, 2, 10. 4.5% vs 7.1% 33.22million larger labor force? When adding all categories of Somali in the 1989 census, their number stood at 421,340. However, fellow Kenyans at times treat him essentially as (ethnic) Somali. 12. Cheeseman et al., Decentralisation in Kenya, 3. less than 1, total subscriptions: 65,085,720 (2021 est. Which Countries Border Ethiopia? - WorldAtlas 65 In 1948 and 1962 enumeration in Northern Province was not done by household because of sparse population and logistical difficulties. The Ogaden (Somali: Ogaadeen, Arabic: ) is a Somali clan, and one of the largest Darod subclans. These centers traded with the outside world, including China, India, Indonesia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Persia. Since Kenyas independence in 1963, the question of how to incorporate the heterogenous parts of its society has been a vital issue. Counting ethnic affiliation was seen by some commentatorsFootnote49 as reintroducing ethnicity into politics when unity should be paramount. Fellow Kenyan Somalis label them siju(i),Footnote105 in the same way as Somalians categorize all Kenyan Somalis as neither knowing Somali language nor culture. On the one hand Kenyan Somalis are in a particularly vulnerable position as they are under threat of arrest and deportation, on the other hand they are perceived as overwhelming in numbers and as more dangerous to the status quo due to their greater visibility in the economic and political sphere. ), total subscriptions: 61,096 (2021 est. Despite the project developing very slowly and the envisioned wall having mutated into a fence,Footnote76 this structure could have effects on the living conditions for Kenyan Somalis inhabiting the northeastern region, many of whom still earn their living through pastoralism. 81. Nairobi Development and the Somali Question in Kenya, c. 191517. Talking Peace in the Ogaden. Fitch rating: B+ (2007)Moody's rating: B2 (2018)Standard & Poors rating: B+ (2010)note: The year refers to the year in which the current credit rating was first obtained. Our background is more or less the same. )imports: 277 million kWh (2019 est. 30. 107.53 million vs 49.36 million 49.74$ billion higher GDP (PPP)? The changed mode of the presidential election also introduced new competitive elements. Many Kenyan Somalis are tired of these improvised solutions and want to be treated as any other Kenyan.Footnote47 Furthermore, as the ID is associated with citizenship, lack of ID means that, in the eyes of the majority, those without do not belong.Footnote48. North Eastern Province (Kenya) - Wikipedia )note: data are in 2017 dollars, 6.11% (2021 est. Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), Parliamentary Debates, July 14, 1999, p. 1327 and October 24, 2001, p. 2713. The Ogaden was one of these and the two others were Djibouti and the Northern Frontier District in Kenya. Interview with Cawo, Kopenhagen, August 2015. The region has an estimated population of about 4.5 million. 84. 79. Abdullahi, who is in his mid-40s, sees himself first and foremost as Kenyan. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). It attempted to recruit Kenyan Somali youth . Menkhaus argues that this response strengthened support for al-Shabaab among ethnic Somalis in Kenya. And when he talked about marginalization, Kenya was the point of reference, not Somalia. One of the biggest took place in April 2014 as usalama watch (security watch), when police went to urban neighbourhoods where ethnic Somalis live to arrest foreign nationals and terrorism suspects.Footnote74 The government also used extra-judicial killings and disappearances mainly in the northeastern region, returning to strategies employed under emergency regulations.Footnote75 Thirdly, the border to Somalia was temporarily closed and in 2015 Kenya started to build a wall along it. Ethnicity is a highly relevant category for political discussions and practices in Kenya, not only during elections, but also, for example, for the allocation of positions in the public sector. In 1993, a Somali parliamentarian narrated a justification he was given by the Principal Immigration officer after Somalis were barred from entering the passport-issuing office: A Somali, whether from Somalia or from Kenya, is a Somali because mtoto wa nyoka ni nyoka [The child of a snake is a snake].Footnote110 These processes of inclusion and exclusion can take place almost simultaneously. 5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG. )crude oil and lease condensate exports: 0 bbl/day (2018 est. In Nakuru, for instance, there were only about 500 Somalis in 1995, mostly members of long-urbanized families. )101.991 (2019 est. When applying the population growth of Kenya (3.2%), a conservative approach ignoring the high number in children in many Somali families, to the census figures from 1962 (about 270,000 counted as Somali), one should have expected to count about 640,000 people. All Kenyan citizens aged 18 are legally obliged to register with the National Registration Bureau in order to obtain an identity card.Footnote45 The effects of non-possession of ID vary, but it is generally needed for voting, education, travel, official employment, business and even emergency aid.Footnote46 Without a valid ID, the only routes into social participation are the acquisition of forged papers, or the usage of middlemen. This prevalence of extended kin-networks and of living in co-ethnic neighbourhoods is, however, not only true for Kenyan Somalis, but widespread in Kenya (and beyond). 98. This strategy of stigmatization informed the security measures taken. The Portuguese were pushed out in the late 1600s by the combined forces of Oman and Pate, an island off the coast. )permanent crops: 0.9% (2018 est. Ceuppens and Geschiere argue that, in many African countries, ideas of national citizenship have been pushed aside by notions of autochthony with their implicit exclusion of strangers (allochthons) since the early 1990s.Footnote4 In Kenya, autochthony discourses play indeed a role regarding questions of who can vote where, but not concerning the overall notion of citizenship. Some perceive Somalis as doing better than other Muslims in Kenya, economically and politically.Footnote41. )101.302 (2018 est. The situation of an Ogaden born in Kenya is very different from the one of an Ogaden born in Kismayo from one born in Region 5. See Balaton-Chrimes, Counting as Citizens.. Ambiguous citizenship, as a concept, not only hints at the changing politics of the Kenyan state concerning its Somali citizens and the manifold ways in which Kenyan Somalis react to it, but it also takes into consideration the various roles Kenyan Somalis play in society. Balaton-Chrimes, Counting as Citizens, 215. Wiesmann, Kiteme and Mwangi, Socio-Economic Atlas, 122128. The Portuguese arrived in the 1490s and, using Mombasa as a base, sought to monopolize trade in the Indian Ocean. 72. Both of them, as good Muslims, did not go out to bars, but instead played video games in the evening and enjoyed Somali music. Firstly, politicians demanded the closure of the refugee camps near the Somali border.Footnote72 Developments indicate that, this time, the Kenyan government seriously intends to shut down the refugee camp complex of Dadaab, despite a High Court ruling denouncing the planned closure as unconstitutional.Footnote73 Secondly, there were crackdowns on Somalian refugees living outside the camps. Numerous political disputes between the colony and the UK subsequently led to the violent Mau Mau Uprising, which began in 1952, and the eventual declaration of independence in 1963. ), 54.2% of GDP (2017 est. ), English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous languagesmajor-language sample(s): The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information. In the 1970s, Somalia, supported by the United States, invaded Ethiopia, igniting the Ogaden War, which Somalia lost due to timely military intervention from the Soviet Union and its ally Cuba. 86. ), China 27%, India 11%, United Arab Emirates 7%, Japan 4%, Saudi Arabia 3% (2020), refined petroleum, palm oil, broadcasting equipment, packaged medicines, cars (2020), $9.491 billion (31 December 2021 est. In the violence following the elections 2007, he was almost killed in a targeted attack, which he blamed on economic competition based on ethnic categorization. New Modes in the Struggle Over Citizenship and Belonging in Africa and Europe, The Fourth Point: An Examination of the Influence of Kenyan Somalis in Somalia, Decentralisation in Kenya: The Governance of Governors, Planning, Property and Plots At the Gateway to Kenyas New Frontier, Somalia Rising: Things are Starting to Change for the Worlds Longest Failed State, The Checkered History of the Somali in Kenya. In the third part of the paper, I discuss how the two dimensions important for the notion of Kenyanness race and cultural citizenship play out for the Somali citizens of the state. 52. 66. [1] Among these individuals are a number of ethnically Somali international migrants, around 300,000 of whom inhabit the wider East and South Africa regions. 103. The latter is often connected to a nomadic lifestyle, which tends to ignore national borders,Footnote89 adding to the perception of disloyality to the soil. In the following, I will discuss three further citizen-making instruments, which have particularly influenced the position of Kenyan Somalis since the post-election violence of 2007/8: the census of 2009, the elections of 2013, and the securitization of politics since 2013. Nobody questions the connection of Kenyan Somalis to the soil of the northeastern region, where most of them live: what is disputed is the question of whether or not this makes them Kenyan. 96. When applying for a passport Kenyan Somalis had to complete a special form for applicants claiming citizenshipwho do not belong to an African tribe indigenous to Kenya. Hansard (Parliamentary Debate), April 28 1994, House of Representatives Official Report 1 (22), Republic of Kenya, p. 579. But counting ethnic affiliation also created opportunities for the negotiation of belonging to Kenya. Unlike Abdullahi, who always insisted on remaining in Kenya, both of his brothers now live in Europe. The region has an overall low population density and is home to Somali-speaking nomadic pastoralists. Ogaden | Region, History, & Conflict | Britannica 57. The practices around the issuance of identity papers, the discrimination through vetting processes, as well as the forgery of papers, led to hopes that the introduction of biometric databases could make the registration and recognition process more transparent. )forest: 6.1% (2018 est. Ogaden STATISTICS Status: Ethnic Minority Areas: 327,068 km2 Population: 4,439,147 (2007 Census) Languages: Somali (95.9%), Oromifa (2.24%), Amharic (0.92%) and Gurage (0.033%) Religion: Muslim (98.4%), Orthodox Christian (0.6%) and 1% others People can be constructed as others and as not belonging to the nation-states community, even if formally they are entitled to.Footnote6 Following Yuval-Davis, citizenship in this text is situated in the wider context of contemporary politics of belonging which encompass citizenship, identities and the emotions attached to them.Footnote7 These diverging daily experiences of citizenship were especially debated in literature on immigration,Footnote8 but this discussion can also be applied to the context of Kenya. They share this cleavage with other Kenyan Muslims, especially coastal Arabs and Swahili. 1. )investment in inventories: -1% (2017 est. )percent of municipal solid waste recycled: 8% (2009 est. 11 Mainly . )beer: 0.81 liters of pure alcohol (2019 est. This is especially pronounced in the case of urbanized Somalis living outside the northeastern region. I met only a few Kenyan Somalis who had family networks spanning across the border to Somalia or who had moved for work reasons to Somalia. Anderson, Remembering Wagalla, 662663. The Swahili language is widely used as a means of communication in several East African countries. In Ogaden, there is no protection from rape and sexual assault of women and girls. Kenyas Somalis, however, occupy the most ambiguous situation of all. Kenyan Somalis, however, likewise reinforce notions of being different when calling their neighbours Africans.Footnote86 This can be read as a colonial legacy, the struggle of urbanized Somalis to be treated like Asians, but it can also be interpreted as a racial marker.Footnote87, Lonsdale noted that the slogan for national unity under Kibaki, Kenya: A Working Nation, also divided the population: Since some work is thought to be morally superior to others some Kenyans are more Kenyan than others.Footnote88 According to him the definition of Kenyanness is linked to idioms of connection to land evolving from the long-standing competition between farming and herding, between working and controling the land. )note: data represents median age at first birth among women 25-49, 530 deaths/100,000 live births (2020 est. This means: at an individual level, an Ogaden from there might feel the urge or need or might be compelled . Somali Entrepreneurs in Kenya Have Transformed the Informal Retail Economy in Substantive Ways, MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, in Association with Cityscapes Magazine, Territorializing Ethnicity: the Imposition of a Model of Statehood on Pastoralists in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia. )biomass and waste: 1.2% of total installed capacity (2020 est. )$4,600 (2019 est. Typically, the concrete emergence of stubborn informalities is handled [] by a range of delegitimizing and criminalizing discourses. Turton, The Isaq Somali Diaspora, 343. 45. Carrier and Kochore, Navigating Ethnicity, 135. )government consumption: 14.3% (2017 est. It also evokes the oscillating political treatment of Kenyan Somalis by the state, and the manifold ways in which Kenyan Somalis react to it. Kenya Population Census 1962, 34-5. Government commitment and international technical support spurred Kenyan contraceptive use, decreasing the fertility rate (children per woman) from about 8 in the late 1970s to less than 5 children twenty years later, but it has plateaued at about 3 children as of 2022.