Marehan clansmen came to fill half the army’s senior officer posts

Evidence

This entrenchment and expansion of Marehan power was particularly striking in the army, where by the middle of 1987 it was estimated that as much as half the senior officer corps belonged to the President’s clan or related clans, the proportion being even higher in the artillery and tank brigades based in the capital in the new southern command unit headed by Siyad’s son General Maslah. Marehan officials in most ministries and government departments likewise constituted an informal monitoring service, influencing if not determining administrative decisions. — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 604

Categorization

• QUESTION: How does this clan entrenchment compare quantitatively to other African regimes’ ethnic consolidation of the military?
• XREF: connects to: Half the Somali army officer corps belonged to the Marehan by 1987

Related

• Half the Somali army officer corps belonged to the Marehan by 1987 (similarity 0.90)
• By 1988 Siyad had abandoned the MOD coalition for his own Marehan clan (similarity 0.80)