A good measuring mechanism for nomads and camel riders may be wells in each region, water catchments, how many sand dams are done for a given region? Maybe we can measure them on how many camels each region has and divide it among a set population. For example a family of 5 owning 100 camels is not possible is it? We know Puntland has 17 million camels the last count we did a while back in 2012-2013 plus their vaccinating heaps of them to keep the growth high and providing water technology, solutions and stratgies to ensure that thirst doesn't kill the camels or environmental diseases through vaccinations of common animal diseases.
So how do we measure our nomadic population. I know any majerten will admit most of our population are on camels not in cities or towns or settled. What we see in Bosaso-Galkayo-Garowe-Qardho and our settlement is a very small picture of our wider population. So lets start counting the camels we have in each region and divide it up on how many a household on average can own? and through that we can figure out our nomadic population in the thousands or millions. Notice even the HY are considered the largest in somaliland yet they don't have a single settlement or large city, it's cause most somalis are reer miyi sxb and nomadic and you need to switch their camel count and transfer that to people their housing settlement count. 20-50 camels per family is realistic and an average family household will be around 5-8 in the nomadic environment but it can be quite larger some push up untill 15 but we need to average it out because not all have 15 kids.
Anyways don't worry Habar Yonis I do believe you are the largest in isaaq and I don't care if you have a large city or not. Ogadeniya has no large city as big as hargeisa, their all on camels too. Plus they actually been estimated and censused by ethiopia to number 5 million even though they dispute it and say it's close to 10 million.
So how do we measure our nomadic population. I know any majerten will admit most of our population are on camels not in cities or towns or settled. What we see in Bosaso-Galkayo-Garowe-Qardho and our settlement is a very small picture of our wider population. So lets start counting the camels we have in each region and divide it up on how many a household on average can own? and through that we can figure out our nomadic population in the thousands or millions. Notice even the HY are considered the largest in somaliland yet they don't have a single settlement or large city, it's cause most somalis are reer miyi sxb and nomadic and you need to switch their camel count and transfer that to people their housing settlement count. 20-50 camels per family is realistic and an average family household will be around 5-8 in the nomadic environment but it can be quite larger some push up untill 15 but we need to average it out because not all have 15 kids.
Anyways don't worry Habar Yonis I do believe you are the largest in isaaq and I don't care if you have a large city or not. Ogadeniya has no large city as big as hargeisa, their all on camels too. Plus they actually been estimated and censused by ethiopia to number 5 million even though they dispute it and say it's close to 10 million.