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Jilib from the southwest:

An alley behind neighbor's houses:

Grant,

What population do you think Jilib had in 1966?

I am,

Abdi "It looks like a village" Johnson

Ibrahim on his way to school:

Doing laundry in the Jubba:

Students from the Egyptian school:

AJ,

It's very good to see you back!

I don't know about the population. I am thinking between 300-500 in the town proper. The one town assembly I saw was less than 300. We only had 50 kids in the government school and about 15 at the Egyptian school. If you look at the Google Earth pic of Jilib today, the old market-school-police-administrative area to the west, is empty, gone; but the town has grown maybe 15-20% to the north and east. Any idea what the population is today?

Nice!

I think I saw a 25,000+ figure but a lot of the southern towns confuse me. Could have been another town

I am,

Abdi "A census needs to be done" Johnson

Nice pics

these are priceless pictures.

Waaw Grant. I am showing the last two photos to an old man in my town and he is recognising several people.