Karim Agha, chief of the Hammond tribe, whose people straddle the border region at nearby Chamchamal, said that earlier this fall a smuggler who often passes through the lines saw Iraqi soldiers with heavy equipment digging holes at night in remote gullies, and burying metal containers.

The Anuak people straddle the border between Western Ethiopia and Sudan.

"An experiment to see what differences persisted even when people saw both sides of the gender gap... and could straddle the middle if they wanted."

Just in the same way that people of Somali ethnic origin straddle the boundaries of the countries of the Horn, it remains the case that Somali clans in each country are also likely to straddle the borders of two or more countries.