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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]
Ibrahim Degaweyne (Somali: Ibraahim Cabdilaahi Xuseen (Dhagaweyne), Ibraahin C/laahi Xuseen Dhego Wayne) is a Colonel of Somali National Movement (SNM). He is said to have never lost a battle. [1] Degaweyne confronted the Somaliland government over control of Berbera shortly after Somaliland regained independence.
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 ...
During the conflict between the Somali National Movement (SNM) and the Somali government, President Siad Barre launched a brutal counterinsurgency campaign targeting the Isaaq clan. Beginning in May 1988, this campaign escalated into systematic atrocities against Isaaq civilians, with methods including aerial bombardment, mass executions, and ...
The Somaliland Police, ... The force was founded in 1993 out of the Somali National Movement (SNM) ... Somaliland authorities arrested and detained more than 100 ...
Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud (Somali: Axmed Maxamed Maxamuud, Arabic: احمد محمد محمود; 1 June 1938 – 15 November 2024), known by his nickname Silanyo (Arabic: سيلانيو), was a Somaliland politician who served as the President of Somaliland from 2010 to 2017. He was a long-time member of the government in Mogadishu, having served ...
In 1987, Siad Barre, the president of Somalia, frustrated by lack of success of the army against insurgents from the Somali National Movement in the north of country, offered the Ethiopian government a deal in which they stop sheltering and giving support to the SNM in return for Somalia giving up its territorial claim over Ethiopia's Somali ...
In the late 1980s, the Issa of Awdal region, led by Abdirahman Dualeh Ali, [5] [6] a former SNM leader, formed the United Somali Front (USF). [7] The militia was discreetly supported and remotely controlled by current Djiboutian president Ismail Omar Guelleh, [8] then head of the Djibouti secret service and the nephew of former then ruling president Hassan Gouled Aptidon. [9]