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 October 1969 to 26 January 1991.

Mar 18, 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.

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.

May 27, 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.

Aug 7, 2015 · 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 from both the Soviet Union and Western institutions.

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

The 1969 Somali coup d'état was a bloodless military takeover of the Somali Republic on 21 October 1969, led by Somali National Army officers of the Supreme Revolutionary Council under General Siad Barre.

Apr 6, 2025 · Last October marked the 40th Anniversary of the military coup d’etat that brought the former ruler of the Somali Republic, the late Gen. Mohamed Siad Barre, to power in 1969.

Jan 26, 2021 · Thirty years ago, Siad Barre’s regime fell. A dictatorship that governed Somalia for over two decades; a country that has never quite overcome the chaos of civil war between warlords and massacres by Islamic terrorists, Al-Shabab. He died in exile in Lagos in 1995.

Jan 3, 1995 · LAGOS, Nigeria — Former Somalian President Mohamed Siad Barre, who thrived on Cold War rivalries but left his nation in anarchy and on the brink of famine, died Tuesday. Siad Barre had...