By January 2013, a mass exodus of Somali residents was reported.

Although provisional results from the 2009 census reported a much larger number of over 2.3 million Somali residents, they are believed to be inaccurate due to inconsistencies in the gathered data.

Britain included the proviso that the Somali residents would retain their autonomy, but Ethiopia immediately claimed sovereignty over the area.

Sharif is terrified the rest of Kenya might "attack and kill" Somali residents, and even those of Somali extraction.

The supremacist group, the World Church of the Creator, will call for the expulsion of the city's 1,100 Somali residents in a rally on a National Guard property five miles from downtown.

Abdirizak Mohamed, a Somali resident, said: "A mother and her baby died after a shell landed on their house.

The Garissa Massacre was a 1980 massacre of ethnic Somali residents by the Kenyan government in the Garissa District of the North Eastern Province.

Since then, the building has seen an influx of Somali residents.

The Somali population in London alone accounts for roughly 78% of Britain's Somali residents.

Somali residents attempting to flee air raids by the Kenyan army have been trapped by al-Shabaab and forced to fight for the Islamists.