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The Guardian
April 17, 2018
It was offensive to the president because the president was “a national president” and not a local official, the presiding judge said. Somaliland, a former British protectorate, declared unilateral independence from Somalia in 1991 as the regime of Mohamed Siad Barre collapsed, but has not been recognisedÃâà...
Daily Sabah
April 13, 2018
Mohamed Siad Barre had been sitting in the drivers seat in Somalia since 1969, but 1991 marked his forceful exit. Few had predicted at the time that his departure would drag Somalia into decades of uncertainty, calamity and lead to the collapse of the state. The United Nations swiftly embarked on aÃâà...
Prensa Latina
April 7, 2018
During this week, warlike actions ocurred as a result of an ongoing crisis that began in 1991, when a rebel alliance overthrew then president Mohamed Siad Barre. Six people died Friday, two of them soldiers, and several were injured in a couple of explosions in this capital. The first detonation happened in a control post inÃâà...
Prensa Latina
April 4, 2018
That organization operates on central and southern territories of Somalia, from which it launches attacks against civilian and government facilities. Somalia is facing a state of civil war as well as a military, political and social government turmoil since the overthrow of president Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, and since thenÃâà...
SomalilandPress
March 15, 2018
Having borne the brunt of the Somali dictator Mohamed Siad Barre's violence against insurgents and dissidents, the Somali National Movement (SNM) and clan elders agreed that Somaliland (re)declare its independence. In the centre of the capital, Hargeisa, is the 18 May independence memorial,Ãâà...
Prensa Latina
March 15, 2018
... about the life of Ethiopians in Cuba during their studies there, when many of them were still younger than 12 years. The victory in Ogaden, on March 15th, 1978, ended with the invasion of Somalia, the President of which, Mohamed Siad Barre, sought to control Ethiopia and much of the Horn of African, to establish a singleÃâà...
Daily Maverick
March 13, 2018
Having borne the brunt of the Somali dictator Mohamed Siad Barre's violence against insurgents and dissidents, the Somali National Movement (SNM) and clan elders agreed that Somaliland (re)declare its independence. In the centre of the capital, Hargeisa, is the 18 May independence memorial,Ãâà...
Mareeg Media
March 7, 2018
The SPF was an official branch of the Somali National Armed Forces (SNAF) until 1991, when Mohamed Siad Barre, former president of Somalia and SNAF commander-in-chief, was overthrown. (Today, the SPF is still part of the armed forces.) Barre, like many other military rulers of the past and present,Ãâà...
africanews
January 21, 2018
Somalia has been mired by security problems since 1991 when war lords toppled dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. Backed by the African Union force AMISOM, the government is struggling to defeat an Islamist insurgency by the al Shabaab group. Al Shabaab wants to topple the government and establish itsÃâà...
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 andÃâà...
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