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SomalilandPress
January 16, 2018
On the 6th day of the assassination of the president (on 21 October 1969), Egal's civilian government was toppled in a bloodless military coup led by General Mohamed Siad Barre. Egal was arrested and languished in jail for the next twenty years. The military junta took advantage of longstanding of generalÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
January 15, 2018
2022 has been scheduled to be Somalia's first one man one vote elections since the collapse of the Siad Barre government in 1991. Alshabaab still controls several remote villages in Galmudug region and pose a serious threat to the region's security as they attack camps of the government security forcesÃÂ ...
CNN
January 9, 2018
Number of people with TPS: About 500. Cause: Somalia was designated for TPS after the country descended into civil war after dictator Siad Barre's ouster in 1991. Nearing three decades of conflict, much of the country's governance structure, economic infrastructure, and institutions have been destroyed.
The Diplomat
January 5, 2018
Somalia established diplomatic relations with North Korea in 1970, and entrenched ties by sending its Marxist President Siad Barre to Pyongyang in 1971. The North Korean military provided technical assistance to Somali forces against their Ethiopian rivals, because of Barre's diplomatic overtures andÃÂ ...
cleveland.com
January 4, 2018
Abdi is a former military commander who fought against the murderous and corrupt Siad Barre regime of Somalia. In an op-ed piece in the Financial Times of London, Bihi acknowledged the challenges facing Somaliland: dilapidated infrastructure; a rudimentary health care system; corruption; and recurringÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
December 30, 2017
Under Siad Barre, Somalia had been a secular state, quite unlike any other Muslim nation. Now the Arabs had a free rein to impose their language, harden the Somalis' moderate way of worship and change the traditional manner in which our people dressed. Unchallenged, the Saudis, the Qataris and theÃÂ ...
Garowe Online
December 29, 2017
The road connecting Puntland's cities was build during late Somali President Siad Barre before the collapse of the central government. The road boosted commercial trade between Somalia's region and was the gateway for goods to be transported from northern region to other regions and to Ethiopia.
Global Risk Insights
December 29, 2017
It was during the regime of ruthless dictator Mohamed Siad Barre that the North (modern-day Somaliland) decided it had enough, and launched the SNM, its rebel movement. In May 1991, Somaliland unilaterally declared independence, having succeeded in exiling the dictator and his military forces.
Hakai Magazine
December 18, 2017
Somalia was at war with itself. The Siad Barre government, which had taken power in a coup in 1969, fell in 1991, plunging the nation of 10 million into civil war. In the aftermath, warring warlords tore the Horn of Africa apart. And into this 3,330-kilometer-long void—the longest coastline in continentalÃÂ ...
Quartz
December 18, 2017
And most of the monuments erected by the former dictator Siad Barre's government in the 1970s and 1980s have been stolen or destroyed, while only a few, like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, have been renovated. Degan wanted to do something that would make Somalis reflect. “We have enough ofÃÂ ...
Times of Malta
December 11, 2017
A Somali television journalist was killed in a car bombing in the capital Mogadishu on Monday, an editor for the TV station and local authorities said. Mohamed Ibrahim Gabow had borrowed the car from a friend, Mohamed Moalim Mustaf, an editor at Kalsan TV, told Reuters. "Unexpectedly it exploded andÃÂ ...
Harvard Political Review
December 3, 2017
After resistance movements toppled the unpopular military junta of Siad Barre in 1991, Somalia was divided between different local warlords and militias. In 2006, the “Transitional Federal Government,” an alliance of warlords supported by Ethiopia, was able to retake the Somali capital of Mogadishu fromÃÂ ...
CNN
December 31, 1999
Somalia was designated for TPS after the country descended into civil war after dictator Siad Barre's ouster in 1991. Nearing three decades of conflict, much of the country's governance structure, economic infrastructure, and institutions have been destroyed. "The security situation in Somalia remains fragileÃÂ ...
KVOA Tucson News
December 31, 1999
In the late 1980s, the area was the target of attacks from Somalia's central government and its dictator, Mohamed Siad Barre. Hargeisa, Somaliland's main city, was flattened and an estimated 200,000 people were killed in what many say was genocide. In the ensuing chaos, Ahmed and his family wereÃÂ ...
The National
November 22, 2017
... of Somalia in Washington and joined the revolutionary Somali National Movement (SNM) that successfully ousted the Siad Barre regime after ...
Toronto Sun
November 22, 2017
Be it Jacob Zuma's South Africa or Siad Barre's Somalia. The list is long and the questions are many, but one stands out: Why did India with one ...
RT
November 20, 2017
Immediately after the assassination of former President Shermarke on October 15, 1969, Mohamed Siad Barre led a military coup which seized ...
RFI
November 14, 2017
Despite Somalia's ongoing insecurity, sparked by the overthrow of former President Mohamed Siad Barre in the early 1990s, Somalis say ...
Aljazeera.com
November 12, 2017
... commanding officer for the Somali National Movement (SNM) rebel group during the struggle to overthrow President Siad Barre in the 1980s.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
November 10, 2017
After a Soviet-backed military coup established Siad Barre as the nation's leader in 1969, Abshir was imprisoned in a remote desert jail for ...
Joplin Globe
November 5, 2017
The Somali civil war began in the late '80s after rebel groups overthrew President Siad Barre in 1991, a military dictator who ruled Somalia for ...
Relix
November 4, 2017
... Middle Eastern scales and vaguely Chinese singing flourished in Somalia while the country suffered under Siad Barre's military dictatorship ...
ThinkProgress
October 31, 2017
After all, as Manafort once said, describing working with bloodied Somali dictator Siad Barre, “We all know Barre is a bad guy. … We just have ...
The Interpreter
October 30, 2017
... way to new dictatorships (as in the Democratic Republic of Congo post-Mobutu Sese Seko) or failed states (as in Somalia since Siad Barre).
The Columbus Dispatch
October 30, 2017
Somalia began to fall apart in 1991, with warlords ousting dictator Siad Barre before turning on one another. Years of conflict and attacks by the ...
Daily Nation (blog)
October 28, 2017
In fact, between 1960, when British and Italian Somaliland became the independent Republic of Somalia, and October 1969, when Siad Barre ...
Deutsche Welle
October 20, 2017
Somalia first descended into civil war in 1991 when clan-based warlords overthrew Siad Barre, who carried the title of president but was widely ...
Eyewitness News
October 12, 2017
Somalia has been at war since 1991, when clan-based warlords overthrew dictator Siad Barre and then turned on each other. For a decade ...
iPolitics.ca
October 4, 2017
The destroyed presidential palace of the last man to rule Somalia, Siad Barre, was still smouldering when I got to Mogadishu at the beginning ...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
Since the downfall of Siad Barre in 1991, Somali has become a failed State. Terrorism and anarchy have been a day-to-day phenomenon.
Deutsche Welle
December 31, 1999
Somalia has plunged into deep misery and hasn't had a stable government since long time dictator Siad Barre was ousted from power in 1991.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
December 31, 1999
Somalia descended into conflict following the ouster of President Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, prompting the deployment of a U.S.-led United ...
Daily Nation
December 31, 1999
... along clans that have fought one another since before the overthrow of President Siad Barre in 1991, falling into the category of a failed state!
africanews
September 8, 2017
The SNM fought against the government of the Somali Democratic Republic's military ruler Siad Barre who ruled from 1969 to 1991 after a coupÃÂ ...
The Star, Kenya
September 6, 2017
But terror groups took advantage of the lawlessness that followed the ouster of President Siad Barre's government to establish operationalÃÂ ...
Christian Post
September 4, 2017
Since the outbreak of the 1991 civil war, which overthrew President Siad Barre's regime, most parts of Somalia have had no formal government.
TV360
August 28, 2017
A senior commander in al Shabaab, Somalia's al Qaeda-affiliated Islamist rebels, was killed last month in a U.S. airstrike, the group said onÃÂ ...
Eyewitness News
August 27, 2017
Somalia has been at war since 1991, when clan-based warlords overthrew dictator Siad Barre and then turned on each other.
BBC News
August 26, 2017
Somalia's music industry was effectively nationalised under authoritarian leader General Siad Barre, who brought most industries under stateÃÂ ...
BBC News
August 25, 2017
Somalia's music industry was effectively nationalised under authoritarian leader General Siad Barre, who brought most industries under stateÃÂ ...
St.Louis Review
August 24, 2017
The conflict started in 1991 when clan-based warlords overthrew dictator Siad Barre, then turned on each other. Today, the security threatÃÂ ...
Newsweek
August 7, 2017
Somalia was in chaos after the fall of Somali President Siad Barre's communist government in 1991; Al-Shabab emerged in 2006 out of theÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
August 4, 2017
... the aim of seeking a reconciliatory Somalia which has been ravaged by a civil ear since 1991 following the fall of the Siad Barre government.
Intelligencer Post
August 4, 2017
Somalia has been in disarray since the collapse of the dictatorship of its leader Siad Barre in 1991. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, SomaliaÃÂ ...
UNPO
July 31, 2017
Famous Singer Sahra Halgan is from Somaliland. Like many other citizens, she had to leave her country under the dictatorial Siad BarreÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
July 26, 2017
... lobbied on behalf of President Mobutu in then-Zaire; and reportedly attempted to recruit the leader of Somalia's military junta, Siad Barre, as aÃÂ ...
CNN
July 12, 2017
(CNN) Musical icon Sahra Halgan was one of the many people who fled Somaliland after the brutal Siad Barre regime, which left theÃÂ ...
Pacific Standard
July 11, 2017
In 1991, after dictator Siad Barre was ousted, Somalia devolved into clan violence and civil war. Omar was only eight when her family made theÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Mohamed Siad Barre's military regime may have controlled the music industry during this golden age, but bars and clubs flourished inÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
In 1969, the commander of the army, General Mohammed Siad Barre, led a bloodless military coup. "When we heard the news of regimeÃÂ ...
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