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Astro

@AfricanAstro

3 years

Laughing with your hooyo is the best feeling itw

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Astro

@AfricanAstro

4 years

UK Somalis before & after 😂

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4 years

The Cardiff community has faced the reality of how UK law enforcement treats Somalis before Alx they're tight knit and inshAllah they will get justice once again just like the Mohamud of 1952 The issues of the past still haunt us today #Justice4Mohamud

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@AfricanAstro

3 years

When you lose a shit ton of oil and have crippling Chinese debt to repay

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Somalis in the Cairo Geniza? (Medieval Jewish Records) The Cairo Geniza consist of thousands of manuscripts stored at Ben Ezra synagogue. This thread will cover some that make reference to the Somali coast.

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

A quiet street photo in Mogadishu colourized

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2 years

Rinkeby, whitechapel, rexdale, islii, bristol, dixon, minneapolis, colombus, amsterdam, leceister

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@AfricanAstro

3 years

Felt

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@AfricanAstro

3 years

This game was unmatched

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1 year

Somali wedding/Eid starter pack

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4 years

Ratioed by a Qur'an you murtad

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2 years

Turknats flexing Ottoman history while simultaneously hating Islam is peak idiocy

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

These are the people sending for Somalis 😭

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@AfricanAstro

2 years

You've strawmanned to cope. Elites mostly spoke Arabic/Persian and had dozens of non Turkish viziers throughout the empire's history. Culture and religion are not mutually exclusive

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Abby Farah a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Somali originally from Berbera Throughout his career he served as Undersecretary General of the 🇺🇳, 🇸🇴 representative to the UN & Ambassador to 🇪🇹 He was also instrumental in helping end Apartheid in 🇿🇦

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@AfricanAstro

3 years

Somalis in the Shahnameh? (Persian Book of Kings) The Shahnameh was composed by Ferdowsi in 1010 CE and is considered to be the pinnacle of Persian poetry. It mostly revolves around folklore.

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A couple pages of letters exchanged between the Isaaq Suldaan and Sheikh Suldaan Al Qassimi of Sharjah in the 1800s. They discussed mutual aid and assistance against the British who the Habar Awal had recently attacked in Berbera in 1827. #Somaliland #History #UAE #Somalia

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@AfricanAstro

3 years

Somali diaspora tier list 👑: 🇨🇦 🥈: 🇺🇸🇳🇴 🥉: 🇩🇰🇦🇪🇶🇦 🤢: 🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇮🇳🇱

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@AfricanAstro

2 years

I never claimed them just teaching history As a Shia Alevi you should know this 'pure' Turkish empire massacred your ancestors 💀

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

A 🧵 on northern Somali trade

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Two Somali warriors Abgaal and Wacdaan Cismaan

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@AfricanAstro

2 years

The Romans are still better road builders than Somalis nearly 2,000 years later

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

@TRVSSCTBURGER @SASBurnerAcct @wojespn Man said the Bulls 😂😂

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2 years

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3 years

Two Somali men in Aden Both Reer Ahmed Habar Awal

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@AfricanAstro

1 year

We really have K'naan vs Barkhad Abdi slander as a cover for Hawiye v Darood on the tl 😭

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

A 🧵on 1920s photos of 🇸🇴 taken by Carlo Pedrini

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4 years

Happy birthday Haile Selassie rest in shit 🤣🤣🤣 #Ethiopia 🇪🇹

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@AfricanAstro

3 years

Kenya went to get milk and never came back 🤣

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

Why do Somalis claim Socotra? there's a native population there that has nothing to do with Somalia 🤣

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@AfricanAstro

3 years

The myth of Somali women never wearing the hijab until after the civil war or 'wahhabism' is a dangerous one

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

People are putting their qabil on Urban Dictionary 😭

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

Zheng He was a legendary Chinese Muslim navigator and Admiral during 14th & 15th century A complete map of his travels was compiled 200 years after his death covering many places Mogadishu & Barawe are included below 👇🏾

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@AfricanAstro

2 years

Wearing this as a Somali is cringe you look like a beg

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@onbilayy

2 years

Thobes are fine but why are you as a somali man wearing a Saudi traditional outfit to your nikkah🥴

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@AfricanAstro

2 years

Xalimos today can't even handle anemia and hayfever 👋😭

Chronicles of the Past

@SomaliArchivez

2 years

#1977 A Brave Somali Daughter escorting a captured Abyssinian invader to the Wslf military base in Ogaden region

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@AfricanAstro

2 years

If that's the case then what does serving in the US army make you?

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@AfricanAstro

3 years

I wonder how many Somalis back home have business ideas but poor infrastructure is stopping them

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@AfricanAstro

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

"Look at these Somalis protesting with their flag" "They want to turn America into Mogadishu"

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@AfricanAstro

3 years

Here's the area the Hadrami sailor covers and the opening verses of his qasida

Garabsare (archived)

@CisseRiyoole

3 years

Me at 4am reading through a 450 page PDF to find an 1800s poem written by a Yemeni captain remarking on his travels along the Somali coast. - wish our people kept historical records instead of only verbally preserving history.

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@AfricanAstro

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1,000 year old text mentions Socotra... "جزيرة سقو طرة" - Nestorian ✝️ - Generally under the rule of "East African pirates" - A source of aloe vera I wonder who those pirates were 🤔

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@AfricanAstro

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Kenya's mood rn 😂😂

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

Somaliland needs to establish an official Architecture School & Board to ensure that good designs are drafted & standardization is happening 📐📏

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

I realized it's pointless to engage in tl debates. People are emotionally driven and will discard facts for their feelings about an event.

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

A 🧵on Somali seamen and their resilient community in Cardiff Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

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@AfricanAstro

3 years

The amount of gaal Somali trolls on the tl is shocking ngl - when did they get so brave? 🤯

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@AfricanAstro

1 year

'Somali males' Paulitschke 1888

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

1⃣ Somali men at a Cafe in Cardiff

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@AfricanAstro

2 years

Its that time of the year again #Boowe 🇸🇱

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2 years

@NewMoney66 He's prob jetlagged bro he just left the US

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@AfricanAstro

3 years

This man already threw away his akhira but he won't enjoy the dunya in Sweden 😂😂

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@AfricanAstro

3 years

How to build a following on Somali twitter Step 1. Lie about credentials Step 2. Use face app Step 3. Profit

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@AfricanAstro

3 years

Rt Hon Andrew Stephenson CBE

@Andrew4Pendle

3 years

I attended an moving event at the Minhaj-ul-Quran Centre in Nelson tonight, where a minutes silence was held and prayers were said for Sir David Amess MP #RIPSirDavidAmess

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@AfricanAstro

2 years

Lascanood elders have the ultimate right to decide their future without SL violence or accusations of terrorism directed towards them. In 2022 Waddani protestors were killed during election unrest by SL police - and were labeled qaran dumis. Bloodshed could've been averted

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@AfricanAstro

2 years

Only the red countries have birthrates outpacing deaths Not enough births = less taxes to maintain social services in the West. Overpopulation is a myth

𓂆 Cocomo

@tussimenukeyasi

2 years

In times like these there is literally no need to give birth to multiple kids. This world is already overpopulated & too expensive, plus health conditions are in decline. Men talk about growing the Ummah, but there‘s no point in having a bigger Ummah

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1 year

She's already a gaal this vid is just the cherry on top

OgadenSoldier ⛩

@OgadenSoldier

1 year

Edna Adan admits that her mother was a devout Christian Catholic

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

Landers like if you want to join a gc

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@AfricanAstro

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- 🇦🇱 Incel attacks Somali guys - 🇸🇴 guys respond by showing 🇦🇱 girls lusting over 🇸🇴 guys - 🇸🇴 girls attack 🇸🇴 guys for "getting gassed"

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@AfricanAstro

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Choose your fighter

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

BS The diaspora is helping to fund hospitals, road projects, new schools & is stimulating the local economy by buying and developing properties. Giving the locals employment and increasing living standards with infrastructure. Don't vomit your soc science lecture on the tl 😅

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@ltsfayee

4 years

The Somali diaspora have grown up in countries that practice capitalism and exploitation. Whether it is a conscious or unconscious agenda, a lot of you who say you want to go back home and help ‘rebuild’ it, come with ideas of borderline exploitation, profiting off the poor. 1/2

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@AfricanAstro

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#MujahidFraud 💀

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4 years

Can't slander OGs if you have one in your flag hun

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@AfricanAstro

3 years

He forgot to mention there's no free market in the US system the companies collude with one another and lawmakers

Mohamed

@mohamedheere

3 years

American healthcare system>>> NHS

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@AfricanAstro

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Somalis & the 2nd Portuguese Armada The expedition was formed in 1500 by King Manuel of 🇵🇹 Diogo & Pedro Dias's ship got lost and they became the first Europeans in Madagascar. After they would visit Mogadishu and accidentally sail into the Gulf of Aden and arrive in Berbera.

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

@ Somalis who think they're Arabs

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

Potential scam watch out⚠️⚠️⚠️ This account @Fowzialovely88 is using images from @ketto and the gofundme is very vague

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@AfricanAstro

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Stealing library books about Somalis is payback for gumeysi 🤷‍♂️

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@AfricanAstro

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A historic map of Bulaxaar (aka Bulhar) and photos of the coast and livestock today #Somaliland #history

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@AfricanAstro

2 years

Believing the Kacaan was even remotely Marxist means you know 0 about Somalia

hayat ★ حياة

@hayxtt

2 years

an ideology that was supported by our people btw, Somalia had a revolutionary Marxist party that led its government. So what now

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@AfricanAstro

3 years

Sad how France has African players knowing how vicious they are on the continent. Do these guys not have any dhiig?

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#CookYourMeals 😎

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Hirshabelle President Waare spotted in a historic photo Does he even age?? 🧐

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Eritrea the flag the face tomorrow

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3 years

Yahuuds after week 3 with Somalis

محمد الوليدي

@mdalwalidi

3 years

هل تعلمون أن الإنجليز والصهاينة فكروا خلال ثورة 1936 بإلغاء فكرة #فلسطين كوطن قومي لليهود ورأوا أن تكون دولتهم في جزء من الصومال وطلبوا من الإيطاليين عدم تفكيك كرفانات جنودهم وضباطهم في الصومال لتكون نواة العاصمة اليهودية. لكنها "شهامة" الأنظمة العربية انقذتهم. #المسجد_الأقصى

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@AfricanAstro

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The Adal - Ethiopian war was NOT an Ottoman & Portuguese proxy conflict Lazy researchers like @KingsGenerals peddle this narrative but a respected Turkish historian says otherwise

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@AfricanAstro

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Adeers after a 3 hour khat session

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I'll drop a thread on this Jewish archive tomorrow. It has a few details regarding trade with the Somali coast predating many Arab geographers.

Princeton Geniza Lab

@GenizaLab

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A glimpse of trade networks in Aden (Yemen) in 1155–56 CE: "Travelers arrived in these two years in ships from every sea: from all the lands of Hind and its provinces, from the land of the Zanj and its provinces, from the inland region of Berbera and Abyssinia.... 1/

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@AfricanAstro

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Hair goals before bidaar strikes #Qafar

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The 'Governing Muslim body' in question

Seeker

@SamQari

10 months

Dagestan Muslims rushing Israelis is not praiseworthy at all. It isn’t permissible in Islam to harm those granted security from a governing muslim body. Our zeal for Palestine should in no way allow us to promote actions directly contradicting the Shariah.

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Who wants to learn about beef cuts? 🥩🐄

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(1/2) The mother of Abgaal, Wacdaan, and Mobileen was from Ajuraan's ruling subclan (Gareen). The Ajuuraan would be overthrown and the Abgaal clan adopted the Imam title

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Cry we're here to stay 🇨🇦🕋

Robert Spencer

@jihadwatchRS

3 years

Canada: Muslim population triples in three years, Islam now fastest-growing religion in the country

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Shingaani = Shanghai Xamar has a medieval China town😂😂😂

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Who's running the McDonald's 🇩🇯 page?? 😭😭😭

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@AfricanAstro

2 years

Why does everything have to be a conspiracy? Maybe its just shitty safety practices leading to fires.

knowledge✍🏾

@Knowledge_iii

2 years

Somalis are known for being Traders from Selling camels to the Arabs to buying and selling spices from India. Recently there has been a number of suspicious fires 🔥 Wahen Market Hargeysa Bakara Market Mogadishu Garisa Market NFD Jigjiga Fire Who is targeting Somalis?

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Warehouse work is the gulag ffs first day and I feel half dead

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4 years

This you?

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You cut out a bunch of muslim countries in West Africa doqon

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He was laughing with Faris about boycotts while drinking starbucks. Hold that you coward

Anwar Wright

@anwarphilly

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Four cowards in hoodies attacked our beloved brother Shamsi in London. The people of falsehood when they have no hujjah they resort to violence. May Allah protect our brother and expose the identities of these cowards. Ameen!

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7 hours and still 0 interactions they don't rate you 😭😭

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@baddahel

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Hawiye women are for Doran. Never will I discriminate against you queens 🫶🏿

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@AfricanAstro

4 years

@canabty Black reduces us to just a skin tone I prefer African but a pale woman like yourself wouldn't understand

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@AfricanAstro

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Eid wanagsan to y'all May we be blessed with more Ramadans iA 🤲🏾

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@AfricanAstro

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Bosnians shouldn't have to he seeing this in 2022

Smajo Bešo OBE

@SmajoBeso

3 years

Imagine being a genocide survivor this evening, listening to this, having to put your kids to bed with this going on outside your window. Europe failed Bosnia in the 1990’s and its failing Bosnian all over again.

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N&N Ha Burburto 👎

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Somali women in a village

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