“Don’t waste your time with generic dating apps that don’t understand your unique cultural background. Download our Somali dating app today.” That’s the pitch from Guurdoon, the first dating app created in Somalia. It was developed by community elders and religious leaders concerned about how to strengthen family values in a country that’s suffered through decades of civil war and conflict. The World’s Africa correspondent Halima Gikandi reports.
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