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Somali women break cultural taboos to take part in a contest aimed at giving them confidence.
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The Somali people are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa who share a common ancestry, culture and history. The East Cushitic Somali language is the shared mother tongue of ethnic Somalis, which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family, and they are predominantly Sunni Muslim. Forming one of the largest ethnic groups on the continent, they cover one of the most expansive landmasses by a single ethnic group in Africa.
Somali women break cultural taboos to take part in a contest aimed at giving them confidence.
"I saw injured people screaming for help - it was terrifying," one survivor tells the BBC in Mogadishu.