Somali National Movement
Rebel groups in the Horn of Africa
Somali National Movement
The Somali National Movement (SNM; Somali: Dhaqdhaqaaqa Wadaniga Soomaaliyeed; Arabic: الحركة الوطنية الصومالية) was one of the first organised guerrilla and mujahideen groups that opposed the Siad Barre regime in the 1980s to the 1990s. The group was also 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, Ahmed Mohamed Gulaid, Omar Elmi Dihood and other former Somali diplomats, who stated initially the group's purpose was to overthrow the Siad Barre regime. In May 1991, the group declared an independent Republic of Somaliland in the region that had constituted British Somaliland before independence and unification with the former colony of Italian Somaliland in 1960 after the Somaliland War of Independence.
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