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The Somali National Movement (Somali: Dhaqdhaqaaqa Wadaniga Soomaaliyeed, Arabic: الحركة الوطنية الصومالية) was one of the first and most important organized guerilla groups and Mujahideen [4] groups that opposed the Siad Barre regime in the 1980s to the 1990s, as well as being the main anti-government faction during the Somaliland War of Independence. [5]
Somaliland is a de facto independent republic, but its independence remains unrecognised by any UN member state or international organisation. [1] All countries recognise Somaliland as part of Somalia. The government of Somaliland maintains informal ties with some foreign governments and has a small network of representative offices abroad.
A United States Congressional General Accounting Office team reported the Somali government's response to the SNM attack as follows: The Somali army reportedly responded to the SNM attacks in May 1988 with extreme force, inflicting heavy civilian casualties and damages to Hargeisa and Burao....The Somali military resorted to using artillery and ...
Somaliland, a self-declared sovereign state that is internationally recognised as an autonomous region of Somalia, maintains consulate-level informal relations with some foreign governments. However, its self-proclaimed independence remains unrecognised by any country or international organisation.
Between 1985 and 1987, the SNM conducted many attacks on government facilities and troops based out of camps in Ethiopia. By 1988, the SNM moved out of their camps in Ethiopia and began operating in northern Somali republic, the area now known as Somaliland. [2] They even temporarily occupied the provincial capitals of Burao and Hargeysa.
This article lists the diplomatic missions in Somaliland. Somaliland is a de facto independent republic, but its independence remains unrecognised by any member state of the U.N. or any other international organisation. [1] All countries recognise Somaliland as part of Somalia.
Somalia’s president says his son didn’t flee Turkey after he was involved in a fatal highway crash in Istanbul, and adds that he has advised his son to go back and present himself to court ...
Somali Civil War began. U.S. embassy shut down. The US pulled its diplomats out of Mogadishu after the "Black Hawk Down" incident in 1993 that left 18 Americans dead. Umar Arteh Ghalib: George H. W. Bush: July 11, 2014: July 14, 2014: Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke [1] Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed: Barack Obama: April 2, 2015: Fatuma Abdullahi Insaniya [2]