The Somali Democratic Republic (Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Dimuqraadiya Soomaaliyeed; Arabic: الجمهورية الديمقراطية الصومالية, al-Jumhūrīyah ad-Dīmuqrāṭīyah...

Ismail Yusuf as President of the Somali National Assembly and Aden Abdullah Osman Daar as President of the Somali Republic. On 22 July 1960, Daar appointed...

German Democratic Republic (East Germany), the Somali Democratic Republic, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the People's Democratic Republic...

Constitution of the Federal Republic of Somalia (Somali: Dastuurka Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya) is the supreme law of Somalia. It provides the legal...

leading to the Somali Civil War. Among the militia groups were the Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF), United Somali Congress (USC), Somali National Movement...

The Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party (SRSP, Somali: Xisbiga Hantiwadaagga Kacaanka Soomaaliyeed, XHKS, Arabic: الحزب الاشتراكي الثوري الصومالي, al-Ḥizb...

government of Somalia, and the first attempt to create a central government in Somalia since the collapse of the Somali Democratic Republic. It replaced...

merger of three groups, Somali Salvation Front, Somali Workers Party and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Somalia. An 11-member Central Committee...

announced the recognition of the Somali Republic by the People's Republic of China. Official relations between the Somali and Chinese governments were established...

unification efforts of Somali nationalists. The post-independence governments of the Somali Republic (1960-1969) and the Somali Democratic Republic (1969-1991) expended...

People's Republic of Korea Lao People's Democratic Republic Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal Somali Democratic Republic People's Democratic Republic of...

Somalia (Somali: Soomaaliya; aṣ-Ṣūmāl), officially the Federal Republic of Somalia (Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya, Jumhūriyyat aṣ-Ṣūmāl al-Fideraaliya)...

Ethio-Somali War 6 April 1981 – 18 May 1991 Somaliland War of Independence June–August 1982 Ethiopian-Somali Border War 26 January 1991 – ongoing Somali Civil...

the People's Republic of the Congo, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Somali Democratic Republic, Libya, and the People's Republic of Benin. The...

the Somali Democratic Republic, including the head of the training department of the Somali Air Force as well as the military attaché of the Somali embassy...

Interim Government of Somalia, led by Ali Mahdi Muhammad, was established immediately after the collapse of the Somali Democratic Republic. From November 1991...

spoken primarily in Greater Somalia, and by the Somali diaspora as a mother tongue. Somali is an official language in both Somalia and Ethiopia, and serves...

reduced by one-third." Under Article 409 of the Somali Penal Code introduced by the Somali Democratic Republic in 1973, sexual intercourse with a person of...

Guled (Somali: Maxamed Caynaanshe Guuleed Faarax Caynaanshe), was a Somali Brigadier General and the vice president of the Somali Democratic Republic. Ainanshe...

Service, active in the Somali Democratic Republic Hangash (Military Intelligence Unit), active in the Somali Democratic Republic Victory Pioneers (Neighbourhood...

The 1978 Somali coup d'état attempt was a violent military coup attempt that took place in Somalia (then Somali Democratic Republic) on 9 April 1978, against...

Somaliland, officially the Republic of Somaliland (Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliland; Arabic: جمهورية صوماليلاند, romanized: Jumhūrīyat Ṣūmālīlānd), is...

prime ministers of Somalia. The prime minister of Somalia (Somali: Ra'iisul wasaaraha Soomaaliya) is the head of government of Somalia. There have been...

presidents. The president is the head of state of Somalia and the commander-in-chief of the Somali Armed Forces. The current office holder is Hassan Sheikh...

religion, and later governments have maintained this policy. The Somali Democratic Republic, which existed from 1969 to 1991, propagated an ideology merging...

The Somali National Movement (Somali: Dhaqdhaqaaqa Wadaniga Soomaaliyeed, Arabic: الحركة الوطنية الصومالية) was one of the first and most important organized...

armored units, supported by thousands of Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF) rebels invaded central Somalia. The Ethiopians and SSDF guerillas failed...

anti-Siad Barre organization initially called the Somali Salvation Front (SSF; later the Somali Salvation Democratic Front, SSDF). One of Barre's earliest forms...

including the Somali Salvation Democratic Front in the northeast, the Somali National Movement in the northwest, and the United Somali Congress in the...

culture of Somalia is an amalgamation of traditions in that were developed independently since the Proto-Somali era. The hypernym of the term Somali from a...