Sitemap - 2023 - Socialist Somalia

Siad Barre tells students his government "liberated religion from the devil"

Soviet Union and Arabs Are Quietly Competing for Influence in Somalia's Socialist System (NYT 1975)

'Mother Africa was finally rescued': Halgan published a poem titled Mother Africa

Somalia's president visited Turkey to meet Kenan Evren in 1987

Al Shabab produces Battle of Mogadishu documentary: interview with Chris Anzalone

Ahmed Samatar on Somali politics after the 1980s

A brief history of Somalia's [lack of] relations with Israel

'Las Anod's bloody reputation was reinforced': Time magazine on the assassination Abdirashid Ali Shermarke (1969)

Did Winston Churchill visit Somalia in 1978? Apparently so ...

'Poetic justice': Somali diplomat in Tehran reflects on Iran in the run up to the revolution

"Surely Somalis are as good a customer for British arms as Salvador?": Parliament debates arming Somalia

British parliamentary delegation visits Somalia during the Ogaden War (1978)

Divided loyalties

Somalia's 'crucial' role in Eritrea's liberation struggle

"Serio-comic": That time when Somalia seized an American freighter

A personal account of political prisoner in Barre's Somalia

"The war is over": Castro declares victory in Ogaden as Carter begins Somalia outreach

Barre "stressed" no invasion of Ethiopia over Ogaden, said Soviet diplomat

Western offer to aid Somali army was "pretty punk", said US diplomat

CIA assesses comparative military strength in the Horn of Africa (1970)

Somalia: A human rights disaster (Amnesty International 1992)

"Siad Barre above all is a chauvinist": Fidel Castro on his meeting with the Somali leader

The Superpowers and the Ogaden War, Washington Post (1978)

Kissinger reacts to the assassination of President Abdirashid Shermarke & the coup

Ethiopia a "bulwark" against Communists and Muslims in the Horn of Africa, wrote Kissinger

US intelligence note provides analysis of the 1969 military coup

US cannot arm Somalia as fighting with Ethiopia continues, said Zbigniew Brzezinski

"Ethiopia occupied Somali territory", says Somali minister

"On almost every issue, you oppose us": Kissinger's bizarre meeting with a Somali minister

Halgan on Somalia's decision to cut ties with the Soviet Union

The Goal's of the Somali Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC)

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