Former ruler Siad Barre blamed for inciting sectarianism, a problem still plaguing Somalia. Twenty years ago the overthrow of Somali president Mohamed Siad Barre left the country in chaos.

It may have come during the regime of military dictator Siad Barre. Barre and the men under him have been accused by the United Nations of committing horrific war crimes throughout the '70s ...

Maj. Gen. Mohamed Siad Barre, who was overthrown as president of Somalia in 1991 after ruling that impoverished African country for more than 20 years, died on Monday in exile in Lagos ...

Mohamed Ali Samantar served in Somalia from 1971 to 1990 in various high government jobs under Somali President Muhammad Siad Barre. During that period, the United States recognized the government ...

Wednesday marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of Somali dictator Mohammed Siad Barre. It is now 20 years that Somalia has been at war with itself. Since 1991, the Horn of African nation has ...

She was 72. Jama was married to former Somali dictator Mohamed Siad Barre for 45 years. After he died in exile in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1995, she joined eight of her children in Columbus, Ohio ...

On October 21, a day like today in 1969, a bloodless coup resulted in the installment of President Siad Barre. From 1969 to 1978, the Barre Regime enjoyed relative popularity and financial support ...

“They’re just lying.” It’s the last of three cases CJA has brought on behalf of victims of the Barre regime. Ali was in the United States for military training in 1990 when he realized ...

The destroyed presidential palace of the last man to rule Somalia, Siad Barre, was still smouldering when I got to Mogadishu at the beginning of February, 1991. Barre had been ousted a couple of days ...

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the establishment in 1969 of the Somali Democratic Republic led by President Mohamed Siad Barre and a socialist system that supported the arts but also promoted nationalism, curtailed freedoms ...

Along with other armed opposition groups, they drove out President Mohamed Siad Barre's regime from Somalia's capital Mogadishu during the Somali Civil War that broke out in the early 1990s.