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History of Somalia. Between the fall of Siad Barre 's government in January 1991 and the establishment of the Transitional National Government in 2006 (succeeded by the Transitional Federal Government ), there was no central government in Somalia. [1] Large areas of the country such as Puntland and Galmudug were internationally unrecognized and ...
Somali Civil War. The Somali Civil War ( Somali: Dagaalkii Sokeeye ee Soomaaliya; Arabic: الحرب الأهلية الصومالية al-ḥarb al-’ahliyya aṣ-ṣūmāliyya) is an ongoing civil war that is taking place in Somalia. It grew out of resistance to the military junta which was led by Siad Barre during the 1980s.
Somalia ( Somali: Soomaaliya; aṣ-Ṣūmāl ), officially the Federal Republic of Somalia (Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya, Jumhūriyyat aṣ-Ṣūmāl al-Fideraaliya) and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. The country was an important centre for commerce with the rest of ...
24,398 killed [30] [31] 1.9 million displaced [32] (see § Casualties and human rights violations) The Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, also known as the Ethiopian occupation of Somalia [33] or the Ethiopian intervention in the Somali Civil War, [34] was an armed conflict that lasted from late 2006 to early 2009.
As part of the official "Roadmap for the End of Transition", a political process which provided clear benchmarks leading toward the establishment of permanent democratic institutions in Somalia by late August 2012, [10] Somali government officials met in the northeastern town of Garowe in February 2012 to discuss post-transition arrangements.
The Somali National Front ( SNF) ( Somali: Dhaqdhaqaaqa Jabhada Soomaliyeed) was a politico-military organization that operated in southern Somalia during the Somali Civil War and represented one of the major factions involved in the conflict. After its creation following the collapse of President Siyaad Barre's government in 1991, the SNF was ...
The Somali Rebellion was the beginning of the civil war in Somalia that occurred in the 1980s and early 1990s. The rebellion started in 1978 when President Siad Barre began using his special forces, the "Red Berets" ( Duub Cas ), to attack clan-based dissident groups opposed to his regime. The dissidents had been becoming more powerful for ...
Maakhir. Maakhir (Makhir) is a self-proclaimed autonomous state declared on July 1, 2007 on an area "disputed" by Somaliland and Puntland. Maakhir 's template of self-governance rests on the building block system endorsed by the International community as a way of reconstituting the collapsed state of Somalia.