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The following lists events that happened during 1990 in Somalia. Incumbents. President: Siad Barre;
From 1988 to 1990, the Somali Armed Forces began engaging in combat against various armed rebel groups, [77] including the Somali Salvation Democratic Front in the northeast, [78] the Somali National Movement in the Somaliland War of Independence in the northwest, [77] and the United Somali Congress in the south. [79]
Operation Eastern Exit was the codename given to the military evacuation of the United States embassy in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991.In late December 1990, violence quickly enveloped the city as armed militants began clashing with government soldiers.
Dramatic new video shows the moment US military bombed a cave complex in Somalia obliterating a senior ISIS “attack planner” and several other militants on Saturday. The Feb. 1 precision ...
Islamist militants exploded a car bomb outside the popular Hayat Hotel in Somalia’s seaside capital before entering the building on foot, according to officials. More than 20 people were killed ...
United Nations Operation in Somalia I (UNOSOM I) was the first part of a United Nations (UN) sponsored effort to provide, facilitate, and secure humanitarian relief in Somalia, as well as to monitor the first UN-brokered ceasefire of the Somali Civil War conflict in the early 1990s.
The relatively stable value of the currency in the 1990s compared to the 1980s is explained by Peter D. Little in Somalia: Economy without a State as resulting from the lack of a central government printing currency to pay for civil and military expenditures. Traders avoid the need to carry large amounts of Somali shillings by converting them ...
The Battle of Mogadishu (Somali: Maalintii Rangers, lit. 'Day of the Rangers'), also known as the Black Hawk Down Incident, was part of Operation Gothic Serpent.It was fought on 3–4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia, between forces of the United States—supported by UNOSOM II—against Somali National Alliance (SNA) fighters and other insurgents in south Mogadishu.