As the world commemorates International Women's Day, the stories of courageous women like Zahra Mohamed Ahmad highlight their ...

In 1969, General Mohamed Siad Barre took power via a military coup and by the late 1980s, a recession fuelled internal turmoil, while Barre’s regime became more authoritarian, bombing his own ...

In the early 1990s, Somalia was in the throes of chaos. After the Eastern African country's President Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991, a deadly civil war ensued — during which severe ...

A little almost unknown already semi-autonomous state has shunned changes proposed by its wider country of Somalia. Puntland now says that it will hold a referendum on whether to accept the ...

Karamara, a place in Somali State, has come out another historical place in Ethiopia as it witnessed a shining victory against occupational forces of the then Somali leader Siad Barre. The victory is ...

Avec sa voix pour toute arme. Sahra Halgan naît en 1972 dans la Somalie du général Siad Barré, arrivé au pouvoir trois ans plus tôt après un coup d’État. Sa ville, Hargeisa, dans le nord ...

Somaliland declared independence from war-torn Somalia in 1991 after the fall of autocrat Siad Barre. But it remains unrecognised by any country or international organisation, leaving the region ...

Opened as a lodging facility for travellers in the aftermath of Siad Barre’s fall in Somalia in 1987, Garissa Lodge soon became a refuge for many Somali nationals fleeing the civil war.

I investigate contrapuntally the way in which Somalian women, as portrayed in Farah's selected works, stand up to challenge the hegemonic patriarch and postcolonial regime in Somalia, as represented ...

The late 1980s had been a time of political unrest in the country, and President Siad Barre's authoritarian regime would eventually fall in 1991. The following year, food shortages and severe drought ...