somalis in English

noun
1
a member of a mainly Muslim people of Somalia.
Unlike other Muslims, Somalis believe that both their religious and secular leaders have the power to bless and to curse people.

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1. There is also the issue of consanguinity, she says, as many Somalis marry cousins.

2. The two Somalis had pled guilty to piracy, which carries a mandatory life sentence.

3. The absorption capacity of Hafun had been reached, and on average, fishermen are wealthier than most Somalis

4. Afars originated in the Danakil depression and mostly lived there while Somalis are originally from the bronze age Jubba-Shabelle valley (controversial opinion, but likely true)

5. To the extent that Italy held the territory by UN mandate, the trusteeship provisions gave the Somalis the opportunity to gain experience in political education and self-government.

6. It is similarly difficult to believe that Capt Kyle would not remember Capt Rainville reporting to Col Labbé and LCol Mathieu in his afteraction debriefing that the two Somalis shot were saboteurs, yet Capt Kyle testified that he remembers Capt Rainville saying they were looters.144 He also did not indicate in his Significant Incident Report that the Somalis ever breached the wire, but rather that they were trying to break into the Canadian compound.145 The first instance of the word sabotage appearing in print with reference to the night of March 4th was on March 5th, in LCol Mathieu's response to a series of questions from NDHQ requesting information about the shootings.