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Somali
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Somali

Member of a group of East African peoples from the Horn of Africa. Although the majority of Somalis live in the Somali Republic, there are minorities in Ethiopia and Kenya. Primarily nomadic pastoralists and traders, they live in families, grouped in clans, under an elective or hereditary chieftain. They are mainly Sunni Muslims. Their Cushitic language belongs to the Hamitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family.



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WHEN I read Gary O'Brien's letter (Birmingham Mail, April 28) regarding Syd Vaughan's views on putting pay to Somalian pirates, I was expecting a broadside in return from 'salty old sea dog Syd'.
Four Ethiopian soldiers were killed Sunday by a roadside bomb in the Somalian capital Mogadishu, officials and witnesses reported.
They evaded capture on the Liberian-flagged chemical tanker as the armed Somalian gang rounded up the Indian and Bangladeshi crew.
 
 
 
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