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How to use the word SOMALI in a Sentence?

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The use of skin-lightening is a now a public health crisis in the Somali community and other communities of color, i have met some women that have been using these products 10 to 15 years ...[and] I always get phone calls from individuals who are dealing with the side effects of mercury.

Amira Adawe

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Regina Phillips leadership will certainly make a big difference not only in South Portland, but around the country, regina Phillips's going to serve an example for Somali Americans across the country to step up and step into New American Leaders own leadership journey. ... It's about owning New American Leaders own power and potential in our democracy.

Ghida Dagher

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We need to acknowledge that our city is experiencing a lot of raw emotion right now, and I know that is especially true for our Somali community who has lost a young man.

Jacob Frey

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Our city is experiencing a lot of raw emotion right now, i know that is especially true for our Somali community, who has lost a young man. Gun violence has gripped our city and today is no exception, but the circumstances and the details of what transpired last night, does not negate the tragedy of yesterdays death.

Jacob Frey

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

As a Somali-American, my family and I were nervous about this election, i'm really scared about what's going to happen, and I knew I had to vote.

Suud Olat

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In Somali culture, most information is spread by word of mouth, now we are going from door to door and hanging posters informing people about the symptoms and how dangerous the disease can be.

Ayan Abdulle

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

He was released last weekend but we had him in (the northern Somali town of) Galkayo trying to get him fit to travel. A week of trying to get him fit to travel. We had to stabilize him, nobody wants to pay for these guys because they are Baluchi.

John Steed

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It is not (only) people of Somali origin; we also have Kikuyu who have become members of the al Shabaab movement.

Fredrick Shisia

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I am a Muslim and I am Somali, I am Kenyan living here, and in that way I can assure you if al-Shabab found me today they call us what they call Mortad (apostates), that is, someone who works against them and they wouldnt differentiate me from yourself.

Mohamed Yasin Jama

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We fired (at) the suicide car bomb before it entered the base. It exploded outside the base. Only seven Somali soldiers were injured.

Hussein Ali

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

One of our mujahideen (was) martyred after he rammed his car into a Somali military convoy.

Abu Musab

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I never expected this word from a leader, i am not ashamed of the country where I was born and I am not ashamed to call myself a Somali-American. But I am so disgusted, ashamed and disturbed that a commander in chief would use this word. Trump should learn about embracing diversity and read his history books. He and his supporters should be embarrassed.

Abdikadir Negeye

Found on CNN
6 years ago

He’s a well-known man in the Somali community, he was well-respected, it’s heartbreaking news and has really affected the Somali community.

Ali Hassan

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

So, by about 2008, we started to see the vaccine rates drop as the word got through the Somali community that autism was linked to measles vaccination, in the years since then, Andrew Wakefield has actually been brought in several times to the Somali community here in Minnesota to actually give presentations supporting this information. ... His work has been retracted.

Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Measles is by far one of the most infectious of all the infectious disease agents we deal with, if you get a major outbreak started in a community, like the Somali-Americans, the sparks fly out of that fire and then start forest fires around the state, and that's what we're concerned about today.

Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Between 2000 and roughly 2008, the Somali community in Minnesota actually had some of the highest vaccination rates for 2-year-olds of any population in the state.

Michael Osterholm

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I want to be very clear that this outbreak has nothing to do with being Somali. It's just the sheer fact of being unvaccinated.

Kristen Ehresmann

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Salah defected from the parliament in 2010, joined us and repented and he became a martyr today, the current so-called Somali government lawmakers should follow suit. We are telling them to take part in the jihad via the same procedures.

Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A lot of people are dying from piracy - nowhere near that number died in the last few years in the Western Indian Ocean (due to Somali piracy), we are particularly concerned by the issue.

Giles Noakes

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Somali health system is at the moment in a state of crisis.

Abdurahman Sharif

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Americans in Al-Shabaab fill a variety of different positions, whether it's recruiting, leadership, commandos, suicide bombers, so the opportunity is there to engage in extensive jihad operations. As with other terrorist groups, Al Shabaab uses the Internet to sell its lifestyle online. That gives it a wide reach that extends well beyond the Somali enclave in Minnesota.

David Ibsen

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We understand al Shabaab ambushed the Somali military commando trainees and captured two military pickup trucks, it is too early to know what the casualties are because fighting is still going on in the jungle.

Ahmed Ibrahim

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There is a boundary that is being constructed around the Kenya Somali border, it has been porous for a long time because the previous government have not taken serious action. [ But ] in the recent past we have established a border patrol police, a specialist police.

Mwenda Njoka

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This is a great shame and it will be difficult for the residents to trust the Somali government and the AU troops, we ask the government and AMISOM to send their troops as soon as possible.

Ali Nur

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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