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 ...

Clip: Somalia has been racked by instability and violence since the overthrow of the military dictator Mohamed Siad Barre more than two decades ago. But one region has managed to avoid much of the ...

However, the connection was fragile right from the start. From 1969, General Mohammed Siad Barre established a military dictatorship that suppressed all opposition – including in Somaliland.

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.

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 ...

Although loads of effort and resources have been invested in trying to stabilise the country since the collapse of the Siad Barre regime in 1991, including the sometimes slapdash agreements ...

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 ...