He had just been born when Somalia's last president, a cultish dictator named Mohamed Siad Barre, was overthrown and the country descended into decades of sustained anarchy. He is one of an entire ...

Aidid was sent away to India in 1984 as an ambassador, with President Mohammed Siad Barre seeing him as a threat. While in India, President Barre's regime became increasingly unpopular ...

Somalia is a semi-arid region with frequent droughts. - Since 1991, when the dictator Mohammed Siad Barre was ousted, Somalia has been without an effective government. - The country is heavily ...