The romantic but bloody days of clan warfare were a thing of the past.
Eliminating it was seen as a way to reduce clan warfare and promote loyalty to larger social institutions - like the church.
Open clan warfare means an end to your conquest on the barbarian world.
There are other villages farther south, closer to Mogadishu, that relief workers have not yet reached because of clan warfare.
But clan warfare has severely depleted the amount of food getting through.
Last week, relief agencies said that 60 people were killed and 40 wounded in four days of clan warfare.
A Guangzhou television station reported about clan warfare and about a 3-year-old girl who was beaten to death by her mother.
His economic reforms were effective but his social legislation failed to put an end to clan warfare.
The move was, in part, an attempt to avoid the clan warfare engulfing southern Somalia.
It was used in the constant clan warfare and border fights with the English from circa 1400 to 1700.