It is about face features not just skin colour. When you see them you can easily tell something is not right and they are not ethnic Somalis.
Many of them are dark skin with elongated features. Frankly my cousins who are cadcad (btw this isn't a nice term) Look Somali. In fact their father (the cadcad) was extremely dark and had a long nose and my aunt was the very light one.
They mix a lot with Somalis, I dunno where that idea came from, because it would be extremely difficult to find one without a Somali ayeeyo.
Also they are definitely not short at all. I think because people assume that they are Yemeni that they are all short but that isn't the case they have a variety.
The women are beautiful and the guys are really attractive as well, they don't have the caato genetics.
Reer waqooyi are obsessed with them it seems.