The Somali National Movement was one of the first and most important organized guerilla groups and Mujahideen groups that opposed the Siad Barre regime in the 1980s to the 1990s, as well as being the main anti-government faction during the Somaliland War of Independence. The organisation was founded in London, England, on April 6, 1981 by Hassan Isse Jama, Hassan Adan Wadadid, and Ahmed Mohamed Gulaid and other former Somali diplomats, who stated that initially the group's purpose was to overthrow the Siad Barre regime.
SNM fighters, late 1980's
Afraad commander Mohamed Farah Dalmar Yusuf "Mohamed Ali"
Copies of the Magazine of the Somali National Movement (SNM), 1987
Up to 90% of Hargeisa (2nd largest city of the Somali Republic) was destroyed
Mohammed Siad Barre was a Somali major general, politician and revolutionary who served as the third president of Somalia from 21 October 1969 to 26 January 1991.
Barre with Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1976
Barre and Queen Juliana in 1978