| 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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| She settled on Burmese and Abyssinians but has bred everything from Somalis to Tonkanese. |
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| He has created an alternate history that claims that U.S. forces, under the banner of the United Nations, killed 13,000 Somalis. |
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| The largest single group of students are Chinese, followed by Afghans, Russians and Somalis. |
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| This history has meant that Leicester is home to a significant number of Poles, Ugandan Asians, Kosovans and Somalis. |
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| Somalis have Americanized their names in order to apply for jobs and housing, Mohamud said. |
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| The Somalis are tall and wiry in stature, with aquiline features, elongated heads, and light brown to black skin. |
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| More than half of all Somalis are self-employed, as herders, farmers, or independent business owners. |
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| We had Bengalis, Pakistanis, Somalis and, of course, white working class people. |
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| Social isolation is not just a reflection of erosion of social networks between Somalis. |
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| Some 40 percent of the striking workers are comprised of immigrant groups as various as Somalis, Tibetans and workers from the Balkans. |
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| Readers learn something about Somalis and Muslims and about the quiet, often-unseen battles being waged each day over culture and tradition. |
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| However, Somalis are not as traditionally religious as Muslims in many other cultures. |
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| The measure affected Afghans, Somalis and Chechens facing return to regions beset by civil wars or with no functioning government. |
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| There are photographs of Iraqis, Kurds, Somalis and refugees from the former Soviet Union. |
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| It was part of a nationwide crackdown on the centers that Somalis use to send money home to family members. |
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| The intended beneficiaries of the appeal were not starving Somalis or hungry Haitians. |
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| It was involved in a series of civil wars against separatist movements of Eritreans and Tigrayans, as well as the Oromos and Somalis. |
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| What can the Somalis do to resist this apparently irresistible force becomes slowly apparent. |
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| In 2003, the government sought to expel an estimated 100,000 illegal immigrants, largely Ethiopians and Somalis, from the country. |
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| As menacing as those automatic rifles were, I felt the Somalis were bluffing. |
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| Somalis offer a milky tea and burn incense to welcome visitors. |
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| They are Kurds, Iraqis, Somalis, Turks, Bosnians, who live on the periphery of the city. |
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| In one incident, a U.S. Special Forces A-team, accompanied by a Canadian reconnaissance squadron, encountered a group of Somalis who had been wounded in an earlier clash. |
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| Before you know it, I had a whole tribe of Somalis wanting to rent. |
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| There are two major ethnic groups in Djibouti, the Afars and the Somalis. |
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| Civil strife in the early 1990s greatly increased the size of the Somali diaspora, as many of the best educated Somalis left the country. |
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| Other pedigrees to score highly were Birmans, Somalis, Siamese, Russian blues and exotic shorthairs. |
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| Somalis have well developed pastoral culture where complete system of life and governance has been refined. |
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| There was also reports of widespread vote rigging, with the French expelling thousands of Somalis before the referendum reached the polls. |
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| Somalia has maintained an informal economy, mainly based on livestock, remittances from Somalis working abroad, and telecommunications. |
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| Many Somalis had become disillusioned with life under military dictatorship. |
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| Somalis have a rich musical heritage centered on traditional Somali folklore. |
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| Pakistanis make up the single largest ethnic minority, followed by Swedes, Somalis, and Poles. |
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| First, the US airmobile tactics did not surprise the Somalis, who had seen the United States use such an approach several times before. |
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| Patrols by European Union warships since December 2008 to deter hijackings have done little to dent the enthusiasm for piracy among Somalis. |
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| When the Somalis speak, and it's almost always to Americans, it's with a stomach-turning callousness that feels fakey and racist. |
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| They were made to work in plantations owned by Somalis along the southern Shebelle and Jubba rivers, harvesting lucrative cash crops such as grain and cotton. |
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| He urged the Somalis to seize the opportunity, stressing that Yemen will always stand by Somalia as Somalia's security is an integral part of the security of Yemen. |
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| It's going to hurt Somalis in Kenya more than Somalis in Somalia. |
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| They were assisted by Somali forces led by Abdulahi Hassan with Somalis of the Isaaq, Dhulbahante, and Warsangali clans prominently participating. |
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| The first Somali immigrants were seamen and traders who arrived in small numbers in port cities in the late 19th century, although most Somalis in the UK are recent arrivals. |
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| These masons are believed to have been ancestral to ethnic Somalis. |
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| Somalis of different clans relearned how to talk to one another. |
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| The remaining 254 Africans, mainly Somalis, survived and made their way to the Ahwar reception centre, the official told Gulf News on condition of anonymity. |
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| In the 2nd millennium BC, the Phoenicians traded with the Somalis. |
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