Somalia
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- proper noun
- /səˈmɑːliə/
- Yet the decisions to intervene in the Persian Gulf and in Somalia required U.S. leadership.
- U.N. peacekeepers in Somalia
- famine in Somalia
- conflict in Somalia
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Watch on YouTubeIf I was playing for Somalia, yeah, I'll take the World Cup.
- If I was playing for Somalia, yeah, I'll take the World Cup.
- So they're driving through like war-torn Somalia or Syria, right?
- It's Somalia one week, Yemen, the next week Syria.
- The caliphate wave includes Syria, Iraq, Mali, Somalia, Burkina Faso.
- As we speak, he's he's bombed Yemen, he's bombed Somalia.
- So she, she became part of a larger group who basically went from Somalia to southern Italy together.
- My parents met and I was born on a refugee camp in Somalia.
- Well, the Gulf of Aden just happens to be the, the part of, of the coastline of Somalia and of the Middle East.
- So you have this paradox where there are refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, were not at all Islamists.
- Yeah, well, they were Al Qaeda, Al Shabaab ended up as the Al Qaeda sort of franchise in, in Somalia.
- And then in in Somalia, they tend to swallow the full mash.
- But it wasn't, I mean, nothing was like Somalia.
- Places you don't want to go, like I'm not going into WHIP because Somalia still ongoing.
- And, you know, I mean, you would go to Venezuelan prisons and you would go to Afghanistan and you would go to Somalia and just.
Examples
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We're not leaving Somalia till we find him.
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More than 30,000 US troops went to Somalia as part of Operation Restore Hope during 1992-3.
Academic text (2012) -
The first that comes to mind is U.S. intervention in Somalia in December 1992.
Academic text (1993) -
The current U.S. military intervention in Somalia is a good example of humanitarian intervention.
Academic text (1993) -
Most African countries, with the exception of Somalia, contain many ethnic groups speaking different languages.
Academic text (1991) -
And all the while, the humanitarian crisis in Somalia continues to deepen.
Academic text (2011) -
Frank Hawkes was a prisoner of war in Somalia.
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U.N. workers fled the fighting in Somalia when President Siad Barre fell in January 1991.
Academic text (1993) -
As was discovered in Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia, "peacekeeping" sometimes is a form of war.
Academic text (1999) -
The NGO provides assistance and support to communities in Somalia affected by drought.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Somalia comes from the name of the Somali people, with the ending -ia meaning 'land of'. One popular story says Somali comes from the local phrase soo maal meaning 'go and milk', so a helpful way to remember Somalia is as the 'land of the Somali', a people long known for herding animals.