Siad Barre, aware of the weakness of the Ethiopian state following the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1975, established the West Somali Liberation Front (WSLF). Somali regular troops, ...

In 1988, as Somalia's civil war intensified, dictator Mohamed Siad Barre sent warplanes - including the one made into a memorial - to bomb Hargeisa, killing an estimated 40 000 people and forcing 400 ...

Addis Ababa - The death of deposed Ethiopian emperor, Haile Selassie, on August 27 1975, remains shrouded in mystery 25 years on as plans go ahead for his remains to be buried in a state funeral ...

The club has a minus-9 goal differential and hasn’t won on the road this season. Maren Haile-Selassie had been the only current Chicago player with a goal against Atlanta. He subbed into the ...

While the duo could have drawn from any number of the Black aesthetes-about-town whom Wales Bonner has previously cited as inspiration—James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Sun Ra, Haile Selassie—it ...

Somalia has lacked a central government since the 1991 overthrow of Mohamed Siad Barre, and has been ruled by clan-based factions since then. Step into a world where the truth shines bright, and every ...

There has been no effective central government in Somalia since clan-based warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. Warlords then turned on each other, plunging the country of seven ...

BARRE — A Granite City man has been sentenced for kicking in a woman’s apartment door. Shan M. McGlynn, 51, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Washington County criminal court in Barre to a felony count of ...

The Somali government, which took power in August 2012, was the first to be given global recognition since the collapse of Siad Barre's hardline regime in 1991. Discover the Truth Step into a world ...