About the somali people... Before the civil war, the population of Somalia was estimated at 7.7 million people. It is believed that about 400,000 people died of famine or disease or were killed in the war, and nearly 45% of the population was displaced inside Somalia or fled to neighboring countries, to the Middle East, or to the West. Of those that are still here today, the majority live in rural areas. Also , ethnically and culturally, Somalia is …showed first 75 words of 742 total…

…showed last 75 words of 742 total…and baby stay indoors at home for 40 days, a time period known as afatanbah. Also, diapering is not common in the rural or poorer part of Somalia. When the baby is awake, the mother will hold a small basin in her lap and then hold her baby in a sitting position over the basin at regular time intervals. Somali had no written form until 1972, when a Somali script, based on the Roman alphabet, was adopted.