He served as a lieutenant colonel in the Somali National Army and led the Fifth Brigade in northwest Somalia during Siad Barre's dictatorship from 1987 to 1989. Somalia, located in the Horn of ...

20. He was a lieutenant colonel in the Somali National Army and commander of the Fifth Brigade in northwest Somalia during the dictatorship of Siad Barre from 1987 to 1989. As a high-ranking ...

An official in the régime of Siad Barre, Mahmoud Mohamed Ulusow began his career for the late president as an advisor, then a director general of the finance ministry, and finally as agriculture ...

Somaliland announced de facto self-rule when declaring its independence from Somalia in 1991, after the fall of the infamous Somali leader Siad Barre. However, its existence has not been ...

Somaliland announced de facto self-rule when declaring its independence from Somalia in 1991, after the fall of the infamous Somali leader Siad Barre. However, its existence has not been officially ...

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Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger How would Foxy’s co-owner describe the feel of their newest addition to Barre’s downtown nightlife? “Eclectic, for sure,” said Liv Dunton. Like if reputedly ...

The conflict between rebels and the Mogadishu-based military regime of Siad Barre saw around 70 percent of Hargeisa destroyed in 1988. Jama Musse Jama, director of the cultural centre, described ...

The desperately poor country has had no functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and then began battling one another. “We Need a Government,” read ...

In a conflict leading up to the overthrow of President Siad Barre in 1991, tens of thousands of people were killed in Somaliland and its main city of Hargeisa was completely flattened in aerial ...