Eighteen Somalis are serving long prison sentences there and more than 100 are awaiting trial.
An undetermined number of Somalis, thought to be in the hundreds, were killed in the fighting.
Mogadishu may be getting safer for Somalis, but it remains a death trap for foreigners.
Some Somalis say that last week's fighting in Mogadishu, their capital, caused more than 1, 000 deaths.
These figures exclude the 6m-plus ethnic Somalis who live in neighbouring Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti and Yemen.
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As parts of the economy grow, Somalis increasingly look to the diaspora for loans.
About 60, 000 Somalis have fled Mogadishu in only the first three months of this year.
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That, it seems, is the price other Somalis will have to pay for peace.
Somalis have repeatedly seized foreigners, even holidaying yachtsmen passing their coast, and freed them for cash.
Kenya's intelligence service is also hard put to monitor the country's 2.5m ethnic Somalis.
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Oxfam and other international charities say that 750, 000 Somalis are at immediate risk of dying from hunger.
The children of Somalis growing up in Birmingham speak Brummie, not some Somali inflected version of English.
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No one knows how disciplined the Kenyans will be, nor how the Somalis will react to their presence.
But some naval types say tackling barefoot Somalis with bazookas is not the best use of large warships.
's World Food Program, says getting food to the two million Somalis in need is a logistical nightmare.
Up to half a million Somalis like Suphie are on the move in a desperate hunt for food.
But Somalis need small change with which to buy tea, sugar, qat (a herbal stimulant) and so on.
As for the Somalis, while some have quit, others say they've been fired and slowly, their numbers are dwindling.
The best hope for Britain's Somalis lies in their enthusiasm for movement, which some say springs from traditional nomadism.
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Partly through choice, but mostly through deliberate council policy, most Somalis have landed in poor black and Muslim districts.
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The eight Somalis were led off a prison bus in a double line, handcuffed to each other in pairs.
Then some other Somalis came to see me after hearing about the attack.
The Somalis also want the Americans to press Saudi Arabia to lift its ban on direct imports of Somali livestock.
After 20 years of war, it's hardly surprising that so many Somalis are ready to turn their backs on home.
The second largest group was Afghans (2, 130, down 9%), followed by Somalis (1, 455, up 12%) and Zimbabweans (1, 345, down 10%).
She says that Somalis are more inclined to collective action, even though they are a more recent and poorer immigrant group.
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The police raided a Nairobi suburb populated largely by Somalis and arrested scores of them for allegedly being in Kenya illegally.
The result is growing desperation for two millions Somalis whose livelihood has been wiped out after two years of failed rains.
And Ayro was implicated in the deaths of a number of foreigners, aid workers and journalists, as well as some prominent Somalis.
In 1992, television pictures of starving Somalis, especially the children, engaged the consciences and generosity of millions of Americans, including then-President Bush.
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