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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, [75] including the Somali Salvation Democratic Front in the northeast, [76] the Somali National Movement in the Somaliland War of Independence in the northwest, [75] and the United Somali Congress in the south. [77]
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 Somali Rebellion was the start of the Somali Civil War that began in the 1970s and resulted in the collapse of the Somali Democratic Republic in 1991. The rebellion effectively began in 1978 following a failed coup d’état and President Siad Barre began using his special forces, the "Red Berets" (Duub Cas), to attack clan-based dissident groups opposed to his regime.
1990; 1989; 1988; 1991 in Somalia: →. 1992 ... 1990s; 2000s; 2010s; See also: History of Somalia; List of years in Somalia; The following lists events that happened ...
Before the full outbreak of the Somali Civil War, food shortages had started during summer of 1990 in the last year of President Siad Barres rule. [5] At the start of 1991, the formal economy collapsed following several years of decline as the Somali Democratic Republic was toppled by rebel groups. [6]
Somali was attacked twice during live broadcasts by locals who were upset by his behavior He was struck in the face by a man during a livestream on October 24 and kicked by another during a ...
The Somaliland War of Independence [32] [33] (Somali: Dagaalkii Xoraynta Soomaaliland, lit. 'Somaliland Liberation War') was a rebellion waged by the Somali National Movement (SNM) against the ruling military junta in Somalia led by General Siad Barre lasting from its founding on 6 April 1981 and ended on 18 May 1991 when the SNM declared what was then northern Somalia independent as the ...