Eyl is a town in somalias puntland state. The prominent clan in eyl district are yonis idiris, a sub-clan of isse mahamud, which in turn is a sub-clan of majeerteen. Eyl is near the hafun peninsula, the location of most of somalias casualties from the 2004 indian ocean tsunami., the tsunami resulted in the death of some 300 people and extensive destruction of shelters, houses and water sources as well as fishing gear. The livelihoods of many people residing in towns and small villages along the somali indian ocean coastline, particularly in the northern regions, were devastated, /shark fishing is main source of income for many of the somalis fishermen. sharks skin drying in eyl

horizontals destruction developing country livelihoods somalia horizontal income sharks developing countries majeerteen devastation africa tsunamis people sources puntland source small beach extensive indian debris mahamud somalias particularly tsunami coastal yonis devastated somali devastated beaches somalia fishing coast casualties ocean residing resulted subhouses state shark villages peninsula third world idiris destruction location rural drying shelters african northern fishermen district somalis hafun somali disasters death disaster towns somalian water coastline