Mohammed Siad Barre (Somali: Maxamed Siyaad Barre, Osmanya script: 𐒑𐒖𐒄𐒖𐒑𐒗𐒆 𐒈𐒘𐒕𐒛𐒆 𐒁𐒖𐒇𐒇𐒗, Arabic: محمد زياد بري Muhammad Ziād Barīy; c. 6 October 1909 – 2 January 1995) was a Somali military officer, politician and revolutionary who served as the third president of Somalia from 21 ...

Jan 1, 2025 · Mohamed Siad Barre was the president of Somalia who held dictatorial rule over the country from October 1969, when he led a bloodless military coup against the elected government, until January 1991, when he was overthrown in a bloody civil war.

May 26, 2021 · Mohamed Siad Barre (Maxamed Siad Barre) was a military general in Somalia and the country’s third president. He came into power in October of 1969, leading a coup d’état against the elected government.

Siad Barre was a Somali policeman, military leader, and politician, who served as the president of the Somali Democratic Republic from 1969 to 1991. He lost his parents as a child and grew up as an orphan in the Italian Somaliland.

Jan 3, 1995 · Maj. Gen. Mohammed Siad Barre, who was overthrown as President of Somalia in 1991 after ruling that impoverished African country for more than 20 years, died yesterday in exile in Lagos, Nigeria.

Mohamed Siad Barre was the President of the Somali Democratic Republic from 1969 to 1991. In 1969 President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke was assassinated. The military took power of the government. Major General Barre became the leader of the country. The new government used a form of socialism called scientific socialism

Jan 3, 1995 · Siad Barre rose from being an orphaned shepherd boy to rule Somalia for more than two decades, using a mixture of terror and guile. He left behind a country beset by clan rivalries...

Maj. Gen. Siad Barre (1910-1995) was a military leader and the president of Somalia who led a coup following the assassination of President Abdirashid Ali Shermake. He is remembered as a brutal dictator whose regime fostered conditions leading to the 1991 civil war.

Mohamed Siad Barre (Gedo, Italian Somalia, October 6, 1919-Lagos, Nigeria, January 2, 1995) was a Somali soldier, politician and dictator who served as president of the Democratic Republic of Somalia by the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party from 1969 to 1991, when it was overthrown. He died on the way to the hospital after suffering a heart ...

4 days ago · The coup was led by Siad Barre, the leader of the Supreme Revolutionary Council and Somalia’s president from 1969-1991. Barre was born on this day around the 1910s (his exact birth year is still unknown although many believe he was born in 1919) in the Ogaden region of the Ethiopian Empire.