Exploring Persian Heritage: Celebrating 1% Persian Blood

Genetic Clusters Classification and Ancestry Accuracy

The Issa (Ciise) Tribe: The Issa tribe, also known as Ciise, is one of the oldest and most influential Somali clans, belonging to the wider Dir clan family. Indigenous to the Horn of Africa, the Issa people have lived for centuries across their historic homeland stretching from Zeylac on the Red Sea coast, through the plains of Djibouti, to the Awash River and the wider Issa lands. This territory is not borrowed or claimed later—it is ancestral land, defended, governed, and sustained by Issa gen