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 ...

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 ...

Egypt under Nasser in 1954-69. Somalia under Siad Barre. Allied in 1969, but soon changed sides to become violently anti-Soviet. During the Cold War period, it was the only government to do so ...

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 ...