Original sentence: However, more than one third of youth remain illiterate in the Arab LDCs (Comoros,Mauritania,Sudan and Yemen).Somalia is a Muslim country, but the Somalis are Somali not Arab, however they did have centuries-old ties to Arabia
Edited sentence: However, more than one third of youth remain illiterate in the Arab LDCs (Comoros, Djibouti, Mauritania, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen).Somalia is a Muslim country, but many Somalis just recognize themselves as Somali instead of Arab despite centuries-old ties to Arabia