fertility

As early as 15 years ago, UNICEF was noting the same pattern that appeared in their 2020 health and demographic survey. It was small with NorthWest, i.e Somaliland, at a TFR of 5.9 while Somalia as a whole was at 6.7. Already in 2006, Somaliland's fertility rate was falling behind that of...

Divine Fertility: The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa (UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications) This book uniquely explores the impact of indigenous ideology and thought on everyday life in Northeast Africa. Furthermore, in highlighting the...

Somali fertility is actually rising whereas for everyone else, except the Afar, it is falling. This tells you all you need to know about how brutal Meles’s campaign against the ONLF was. The Somali region missed out on a decade of very high growth. It is making it up now it seems...