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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...