Habar Gidir

The Habar Gidir are one of the largest Somali clan families and inhabit a vast portion of the Somali nation and Somali peninsula at large. The Habargidir mainly reside in the central regions of Somalia, where they predominate, and are frequently associated with the region itself. The Habargidir as a clan break into 5 clan families made up of the Cayr, Sacad, Saleebaan, sifaadle and Saruur who are all descended from Madarki’is (Madarkicis Hiraab).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j3DGs00LT8EC|title=Peoples of the Horn of Africa: Somali, Afar and Saho|last=Lewis|first=I. M.|date=1998-01-01|publisher=Red Sea Press|isbn=9781569021057|page=25|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j3DGs00LT8EC|title=Peoples of the Horn of Africa: Somali, Afar and Saho|last=Lewis|first=I. M.|date=1998-01-01|publisher=Red Sea Press|isbn=9781569021057|language=en|quote=At the end of the book "Tribal Distribution of Somali Afar and Saho"}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dcMtAQAAIAAJ&q=Gurgura+dir|title=Ethiopia: the top 100 people|last=Verdier|first=Isabelle|date=1997-05-31|publisher=Indigo Publications|isbn=9782905760128|pages=13|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_8D0gYZZVKEC|title=Voice and Power|last1=Hayward|first1=R. J.|last2=Lewis|first2=I. M.|date=2005-08-17|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135751753|page=242|language=en}}The Quranyo section of the Garre claim descent from Dirr, who are born of the Irrir Samal. UNDP Paper in Kenya http://www.undp.org/content/dam/kenya/docs/Amani%20Papers/AP_Volume1_n2_May2010.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517092837/http://www.undp.org/content/dam/kenya/docs/Amani%20Papers/AP_Volume1_n2_May2010.pdf |date=2018-05-17 }}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0m9yAAAAMAAJ|title=Mending rips in the sky: options for Somali communities in the 21st century|last1=Adam|first1=Hussein Mohamed|last2=Ford|first2=Richard|date=1997-01-01|publisher=Red Sea Press|isbn=9781569020739|page=127|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XpdAzRYruCwC|title=The Invention of Somalia|last=Ahmed|first=Ali Jimale|date=1995-01-01|publisher=The Red Sea Press|isbn=9780932415998|page=121|language=en}}

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The Habar Gidir are a Hiraab sub-clan. The forefather of the clan is Madarkicis Hiraab and Habar Gidir is the name of their mother, Gidir Karanle, the sister of Murusade. Madarkicis is part of the Hiraab section of Hawiye. Madarkicis translates to "gathering causer or The one who rouses meetings" in the Somali language. The name Habar gidir is derived from Madarkicis' appreciation to Raarey Gidir, who gave birth to two of his sons out of a total of five and nurtured all of his children, Madarkicis afterwards made the prayer that Raarey Gidir's name surpasses his to convey his thanks for her care. {{Cite book|last=Diiriye|first=Anwar Maxamed|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fLdtAAAAMAAJ&q=madarkicis|title=Literature of Somali Onomastics & Proverbs with Comparison of Foreign Sayings|date=2006|publisher=Gobaad Communications & Press|isbn=978-0-9726615-1-5|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Ahmed|first=Ali Jimale|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9uRyAAAAMAAJ&q=madarkicis|title=The Invention of Somalia|date=1995|publisher=Red Sea Press|isbn=978-0-932415-98-1|language=en}}

The Habar Gidir clan has produced prominent figures such as the first Prime Minister of Somalia Abdullahi Issa Mohamud, who hailed from the Sa'ad subclan; Reer Nima'ale.  Abdullahi Issa played one of the most important roles if not the most important role in bringing independence for the Somali nation. He stood firm in his beliefs against the occupying Italians and ensured to get them out of the country legally and bring Somalis freedom in which he was victorious.

Somalia's fifth president Abdiqasim Salad Hassan also hails from the Habargidir, Ayr, Absiiye. The president was elected at a time where Somalia had not seen governance for nearly a decade and was elected in the town of Arta in Djibouti by Somali delegates representing the various Somali clans and factions. His government faced great challenges despite his will to restore the Somali nation to its better past. He was also a very important figure in Mohamed Siyad Barres Regime and held 7 ministerial posts in the span of the regimes rule.

General Mohamed Farah Aydid, also from the Habar Gidir, is regarded as the most influential general in modern Somali political history. Mohamed Farah Aydid was a Major General who was instrumental in the 1977 war against Ethiopia to liberate the unlawfully occupied Somali Region. After other Somali clans failed to overthrow President Mohamed Siyad Barre's totalitarian rule, the General played the most essential role in overthrowing the regime. General Aydid was the Chairman and Leader of the United Somali Congress faction, which ousted Mohamed Siyad Barre.{{cite web|url=https://www.africa-confidential.com/article-preview/id/13388/Edging_Farmajo_towards_the_exit|title= Edging Farmajo towards the exit |date=May 12, 2021|publisher= Africa-confidential|access-date=7 June 2021}}{{cite web|url=http://www.somaliawatch.org/archiveoct00/001129601.htm|title=De-classified Documents: Foreign Relations of the United States 1964-1968, Volume XXIV Africa:346. Memorandum From the Under Secretary of State (Katzenbach) to President Johnson: March 12, 1968|date=November 29, 2000|publisher=Somali Watch (source: US Department of State, Washington)|access-date=1 November 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120130117/http://www.somaliawatch.org/archiveoct00/001129601.htm|archive-date=20 November 2010}}{{cite news|title=SOMALIA PM Said "Cabinet will work tirelessly for the people of Somalia"|url=http://www.midnimo.com/2014/01/17/somalia-pm-said-cabinet-will-work-tirelessly-people-somalia/|access-date=17 January 2014|newspaper=Midnimo|date=17 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203025315/http://www.midnimo.com/2014/01/17/somalia-pm-said-cabinet-will-work-tirelessly-people-somalia/|archive-date=3 February 2014|url-status=dead}}

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