Mohamed Siad Barre

Part of the price will be recognition that the warlords have just as much of a role to play in the TNG as Siad Barre's old ministers exploding the UN myth that the TNG would provide a new approach to Somali politics...

Yet he has welcomed equally unaccountable ex-ministers of President Mohamed Siad Barre's regime long exiled intellectuals and businessmen and traditional elders many of his own choice...

The Elai from Bur Hakaba have set up a Rahenweyn Salvation Army to fight the Rahenweyn Resistance Army which controls most of both regions but is itself split between its military core under Shati Gadud (mainly Harin and Hadamo people and favoured by Ethiopia) and its founders the Leyssan merchants headed by Ali Margus plus politicians from President Mohamed Siad Barre's era such as Abdelkader Zoppe and Sheikh Mukhtar...

His father General Mohamed Farah Aydeed was instrumental in ousting President Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 and died after a shoot-out in 1996...

General Adan Nur ‘Gebiyu’ (Absame/Ogaden) Defence Minister under Mohamed Siad Barre and Chairman of the Somali Patriotic Movement and Gen...

• Many of Ali Mahdi's supporters (including the late President Mohamed Siad Barre's one-time Ambassador to the United States Omar Moallem an Ogaden/Darod who was not invited to Sodere) complain that Somalia cannot found a government in a country which occupies its territory (Ethiopian incursions against Islamists)...

Before the break-up of Somalia Kenya supported President Mohamed Siad Barre's government with funds and a rear base...

Siad Barre's son-in-law Kismayu faction leader Mohamed Hirsi 'Morgan' is a frequent visitor to Nairobi government offices and to the Marehan diaspora in the capital's Eastleigh area...

He is the brother of Rahenweyne Resistance Army chief Abdulkader Mohamed Aden 'Zoppe' Interior Minister at Independence and later confidant of President Mohamed Siad Barre...

The Secretary General of Ato's wing of the SNA Mohamed Ahmed Nur (Rer Hilowle) was killed on 7 October with Abdulkader Warsame 'George' (Wabudhan/Abgal) an engineer and former Siad Barre minister who was close to Ato whose spokesman Abdi Abshir Kahiye had been murdered on 20 September...

Al Itahad's power increased when forces of the late General Mohamed Farah 'Aydeed' pushed out the Somali National Front led by the Marehan clan of the late President Siad Barre...

Siad Barre's family nicknamed Omar Haji 'Hawiye' in the mid-1980s because he tried to give the Hawiye clan more power...

Will it renew its special relationship with figures such as Ali Mahdi Mohamed's General Ahmed Jilow once President Mohamed Siad Barre's intelligence chief and later head of security in Mogadishu...