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...

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

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...

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

The Somali Rebellion was the start of the Somali Civil War that began in the 1970s and resulted in the collapse of the Somali Democratic Republic in 1991...

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

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...

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...

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...

Somaliland 1961 1961 revolt in Somalia 21 October 1969 1969 Somali coup d'état 1977 – 1978 Ogaden War 13 July – October 1977 Somali invasion of Ogaden July 1977...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

the Federal Republic of Somalia, and the unity of the Somali nation, as well as ensuring the implementation of the Constitution of Somalia and the organised...

The Ogaden War, also known as the Ethio-Somali War (Somali: Dagaalkii Xoraynta Soomaali Galbeed, Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ሶማሊያ ጦርነት, romanized: ye’ītiyop’iya somalīya...

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

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

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

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...

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 that were developed independently since the Proto-Somali era. The hypernym of the term Somali from a geopolitical...

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...