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There is a sizable Somali community in the United Arab Emirates. Somali-owned businesses line the streets of Deira, the Dubai city centre, [222] with only Iranians exporting more products from the city at large. [223] Internet cafés, hotels, coffee shops, restaurants and import-export businesses are all testimony to the Somalis ...
Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland. [15] Somalia has an estimated population of 18.1 million, [16] [17] [18] of which 2.7 million live in the capital and largest city, Mogadishu. Around 85% of its residents are ethnic Somalis and the official languages of the country are Somali and Arabic, though the former is the primary ...
Somali is the official language of Somalia. It is the mother tongue of Somalis, the nation's most populous ethnic group. [26] The language is a member of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. [27] In addition to Somali, Arabic, which is also an Afroasiatic tongue, [28] is another official language in Somalia.
The Isaaq clans began migrating from their ancestral homeland in the city of Maydh, eventually settling and dispersing across various regions of the Horn of Africa. [2] These migrations were part of the broader movements of the Somali people around the Horn, which contributed to the establishment of Somali settlements in their present-day ...
The Somalis did not claim sovereignty over adjacent territories, but rather demanded that Somalis living in them be granted the right to self-determination. [6] Somali leaders asserted that they would be satisfied only when their fellow Somalis outside the republic had the opportunity to decide for themselves what their status would be. [6]
The Somali diaspora or Qurbajoogta refers to Somalis who were born in Greater Somalia and reside in areas of the world that they were not born in. The civil war in Somalia greatly increased the size of the Somali diaspora, as many Somalis moved from Greater Somalia primarily to Europe, North America, Oceania and South Africa.
The Rahanweyn (Maay: Reewin, Somali: Raxanweyn, Arabic: رحنوين), also known as the Digil and Mirifle (Somali: Digil iyo Mirifle) is a major Somali clan. It is one of the major Somali clans in the Horn of Africa, with a large territory in the densely populated fertile valleys of the Jubba and Shebelle rivers and the areas inbetween, which ...
According to the 2007 census from the Central Statistical Authority, the Somalis were the third largest ethnic group in Ethiopia with roughly 4.6 million people [1] accounting for 8.2% of the country's population, after the Oromo (34.4%) and Amhara (27%). [3] The Somali population in Ethiopia make up around 30% of the total Somali population ...