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Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ghāzī
Statue of the 16th-century Muslim leader Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ghāzī (also known as...
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Somalia, c. 1902
Map of northeastern Africa, with British Somaliland (as British Somali Coast Protectorate)...
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Mogadishu, Somalia
Abandoned street in Mogadishu, Somalia, that was the dividing line between warring...
PH1 R. Oriez/U.S. Department of Defense
Somalia, Somaliland, and Puntland
The Republic of Somalia experienced fragmentation in the 1990s: the self-proclaimed...
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pirates off the coast of Somalia
Pirates and their hostages waiting on the deck of a captive Ukrainian cargo ship...
Jason R. Zalasky/U.S. Navy
Somali National Theater
Singers performing at the Somali National Theater during a program marking the reopening...
Omar Faruk—Reuters/Alamy
Somalia: 2017 presidential election
Votes being counted in the first round of parliament's election of the president,...
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