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"'''Soomaaliyeey toosoo'''" ("Somalis, Wake Up")<ref name="Somanth">{{cite web|title=Somalia - National Anthem|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2218.html#so|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919040401/https://cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2218.html#so|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 19, 2011|publisher=CIA|accessdate=30 September 2012}}</ref> was the [[national anthem]] of [[Somalia]] from 2000 until August 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://worldstatesmen.org/Somalia.html|title=Somalia|last=Cahoon|first=Ben|website=worldstatesmen.org|access-date=2018-03-28}}</ref> It was adopted by the [[Transitional National Government]], replacing the [[National anthem of Somalia (1960–2000)|unnamed former national anthem]].
The lyrics of the Somalia National Anthem were composed by
==History==
"''Soomaaliyeey toosoo''" is a well-known Somali song that dates from the early 1940s. It was first composed by Cali Mire Cawaale and sung by Yusuf Haji Adam and Ali Mire.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=AVg0833fI-0C&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=%22ali+mire+awale%22&source=web&ots=IpEH5GklT3&sig=C5CHK7elxw42nJ6_qPoTg1vBmZg "The Camel in Somali Oral Tradition"] by Axmed Cali Abokor {{ISBN|91-7106-269-6}}</ref> sometime in the 1940s.
It was sung to mark independence day on July 1, 1960, and was regularly performed by children in the mornings at schools. "Soomaaliyeey toosoo" was officially adopted in 2000.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nationalanthems.info/so.htm|title=Somalia|date=2013-04-16|work=nationalanthems.info|access-date=2018-03-28|language=en-US}}</ref>
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