Socio-demographic and environmental determinants of camel mortality in Somaliland’s nomadic communities: A negative binomial regression analysis of the 2020 demographic and health survey

Mohamed Ahmed Hassan; Omran Salih

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0342230

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Socio-demographic and environmental determinants of camel mortality in Somaliland’s nomadic communities: A negative binomial regression analysis of the 2020 demographic and health survey

Mohamed Ahmed Hassan,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Postgraduate Studies & Research, Amoud University, Borama, Somalia
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Omran Salih

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: omran.salih@amoud.edu.so

Affiliations School of Postgraduate Studies & Research, Amoud University, Borama, Somalia, Institute of Systems Science, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7861-5502

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Socio-demographic and environmental determinants of camel mortality in Somaliland’s nomadic communities: A negative binomial regression analysis of the 2020 demographic and health survey

Mohamed Ahmed Hassan,
Omran Salih

Published: February 10, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0342230

About the Authors

Mohamed Ahmed Hassan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Postgraduate Studies & Research, Amoud University, Borama, Somalia

Omran Salih

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: omran.salih@amoud.edu.so

Affiliations School of Postgraduate Studies & Research, Amoud University, Borama, Somalia, Institute of Systems Science, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7861-5502

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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