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Saylac [1940]

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Looking through old BBC footage I have saved and came across this amazing 'mask off' moment from an American soldier deployed to Muqdisho in 1993 as part of the UNOSOM occupation force.

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@weinercasanova @ACLU if you think about it's really sad how this isn't the least bit surprising

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@paulsl_3 this is a distinction that matters to no one but a marine

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Soldier featured here just so happens to the same as the one holding the pistol in this well known photo. Spoke to a US soldier who was deployed in Muqdisho during 1993 and he claimed that he knew the man in the picture quite well...apparently a US Staff Sgt. Ken Haugen who went

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@dpinsen Wait till you find out about October 3rd 1993 and what they decided to do to UNOSOM after...

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@GrapeHarrington LMFAO he brought his bs back home😂

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not so sure about friendly😭

Fourdegrees 4*

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I hope he wrote a book about what happened there . Must be a friendly soldier.

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U.S. troops in Mogadishu convert to Islam (1993)

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Somali man holding a baby camel [1904]

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[1977]

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A Somali trying to emulate those stupid ‘this was Iranian women pre-1979’ posts🤣too much

Abdikarin Dahir

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Somali girls 1980s. Vs Somali girls 2024

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single funniest Somali politics tweet dropped in 2024 imo

Suleiman Bolaleh

@SuleimanElite

2 months

Every time the President of #Somalia @HassanSMohamud is criticizing #Ethiopia , he raises his right hand Index finger, same as #OsamabinLaden 's style, saying that he will use #alshabab terrorist against #Ethiopia . Thanks, @MohaAliDr for your observation NB Somalia President is

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Children at a rural Quran school in southern Somalia [1980s]

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In my own digging I’ve managed to find evidence of Tunisian, Amhara, Palestinian, Yemeni, Oromo, Saudi and Eritrean Muslim volunteers fighting under the Islamic Courts or one of the early Muqawama factions against the Ethiopians. Tragically very little is properly documented…

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[1993]

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Somali National Army troops stand ready to repel another attempted Ethiopian military incursion near occupied Galdogob in Mudug region of central Somalia [July 1982]

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Digging through university archives and came across this booklet from 1965

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Really unexpected find

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Digging through university archives and came across this booklet from 1965

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Residents of Kismaayo celebrating Eid al-Adha [26 March 1934]

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Muqdisho [1958]

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@rompe_redes_16 @Hayetathome oh boo hoo everything remotely negative about the state of israel is anti semitism

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Footage of the 6th World Muslim Congress in Muqdisho, where delegates from approximately 30 nations across the Islamic world gathered. The congress convened from December 27th, 1964, to January 3rd, 1965.

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Marka [1987]

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@Aaron_harding12 @dpinsen “Just 3 helis bro”

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Actually makes me emotional. Allahu Naxariisto to the Islamic Courts Mujahideen who made the ultimate sacrifice against overwhelming odds.

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Mareerey, Middle Jubba region [1987]

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'...a Somali militant who waged war against Italy and Great Britain in 1899...' The way these idiots describe Sayyid Muhammed Abdullah Hassan, you would think he launched a full scale jihad into Europe while raising every town as he marched up the Italian Peninsula to the UK.

Mario Nawfal

@MarioNawfal

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🇺🇸 U.S. HAS STREET NAMED AFTER JIHADIST WHO KILLED 200K A street in Columbus, Ohio was named Mohamed Abdullah Hassan Lane. Abdullah Hassan was a Somalian militant who waged war against Italy and Great Britain in 1899, leaving 200k dead. Despite being an icon for terrorist

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During Spring 1897, the Somali mujahideen in Ogaden devastated Ras Makonnen's (Emperor Haile Selassie's father) army of Abyssinian invaders, killing at least 5,000. The defeat stung Makonnen so bad foreign journalists in occupied Harar reported that he started 'crying bitterly'.

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Western Somali Liberation Front soldier standing atop an Imperial Lion statue in liberated Qalaafe [Sept. 1977]

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Southern Somalia [1972]

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Gandershe [1972]

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The Liberation of Jigjiga [September 1977]

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Very unfortunate how the stories of Somali foreign fighters in Afghanistan and Lebanon during the 1980s have been mostly lost. The amount of Somalis who ended up fighting with the Afghan Mujahideen especially is surprising (though shouldn’t be overstated).

Caleb Weiss

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Currently doing a deep dive of the PLO during the Lebanese Civil War and came across this: the passport of a Somali foreign fighter.

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random day-to-day life photos I like of '80s Mogadishu

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The way some Ethiopians shamelessly try to spin 2006 as 'but we got provoked' makes my blood boil. What country for years helped the CIA arm warlords to fight the ICU? What country sent in thousands of troops into Somalia starting June 2006 the instant the ICU united Mogadishu?

Daniel W

@Mihos1

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@Amhara_News He conveniently forgot the fact that the Islamic Courts threatened Ethiopia before the invasion and Meles took that as an excuse to invade.

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old tape of a Mogadishu sunset filmed months before the war

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Camel herding in Lower Jubba [1972]

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Somali man holds up a photo of Saddam Hussein and Gen. Muhammed Farah Aideed at an anti-American rally in Mogadishu [Summer 1993]

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footage of the pre-union Islamic Courts on a neighbourhood patrol in south Muqdisho [1995]

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Western Somali Liberation Front fighter equipped with a bayonet tipped AK-47 [1977]

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Among my favorite pieces of footage from the UNOSOM War. A German TV crew captured a shot of an American Black Hawk harassing an anti-UN protest by buzzing low over it, only to be met in response with a volley of shoes & slippers into the air from the rally.

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Demonstrator holding the flag during a rally against airstrikes and the overall United Nations (UNOSOM II) military offensive in Muqdisho as an American UH-60 Black Hawk surveils the protest overhead [14 June 1993]

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Demonstrator holding the flag during a rally against airstrikes and the overall United Nations (UNOSOM II) military offensive in Muqdisho as an American UH-60 Black Hawk surveils the protest overhead [14 June 1993]

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Western Somali Liberation Front guerilla prays by his mortar in the Aware region of the Ogaden [April 1981]

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@notdineg @Aldanimarki day ruined :(

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the confident ignorance of Americans never ceases to impress

Eric Richards

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Is Muqdisho some new gay politically correct way to say skinny-land?

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Picture taken in Muqdisho sometime during 1986

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@hayxtt And then the military tried cover up the murder of Arone and others, according to the Canadian governments own inquiry (which was shut down before they could even get to the murder that had opened it to begin with)

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In some nightmarish alternate timeline, the plan for the 'Autonomous Jewish Province In Harar' came to fruition after WWII and the people of Galbeed & northern Somalia had to resist the expansion of both European Jewish and Abyssinian Christian highland settlers

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Came across the cutest photo of a little Somali girl at a Hargeisa photo studio. I believe around 1990, but date is unknown.

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Lafoole University [1970s]

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Emperor Menelik invading Somali lands is defence from colonialism according to this genius. Same empire that was getting all their guns needed to carry out their expansions from…Europeans…while Somalis were under an arms embargo. Ok.

Gorg🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺Jackson

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@bronzeagestalin So your logic is that because Ethiopia successfully defended itself against European colonization makes Ethiopia a colonizer? So what should have the Ethiopians done. Sit down and wait while Europeans were encroaching in every direction around them?

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Old recruitment video showing the courageous men and women of the Ogaden National Liberation Front undergoing training [January 2002]

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@Aaron_harding12 @dpinsen nothing happened because you couldn't make it happen

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There is nothing funnier in this world to me than Ethiopians who boast about the 2006 invasion. Invaded a country with no army, against a force of a 4-8k volunteers and students fighting on two fronts stretching hundreds of kilometres…all while being backed by US airstrikes💀

Saa Tusa

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@SeaEnjoyer27182 We went Beledweyne to Ras Kamboni in one week. You guys are hit-run artists. Don’t flap your jaws on here like real men.

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These people are so deluded. They actually think Somalis didn't try to invoke the secession clause in the new Ethiopian constitution as soon as they could.

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@SaidHanaan32825 @damourhaine There is article 39 if you want to leave. Happy voting ✌🏼

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Footage from the aftermath of the liberation of Jijiga [September 30th 1977]

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drought affected nomad resettlement effort (1975)

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footage of the Islamic Courts Union central courthouse and garbage cleaning campaigns in operation during the height of the organization’s power (Fall 2006)

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Abyssinia spends 2024 continuing the pursuit of its old imperial dream of bringing Somalia under it’s dominion. Instead of addressing the obvious root problem, people like to make conspiracy theories about why Al-Shabaab gets stronger and larger by the year.

Shabelle Media Network

@ShabelleMedia

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UPDATE: Ethiopian troops have allegedly started collecting taxes from local people in Gedo region, reliable sources told @ShabelleMedia . Hundreds of Ethiopian non-ATMIS troops are currently stationed in key towns of Gedo region.

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Muqdisho [1980s]

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After spending well over $100 and waiting several months…finally got it

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BBC News report on French/Somali military tensions during the lead up to the independence of Djibouti and the prospect of unification with Somalia [1976]

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Man walks near a low flying US AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter on patrol over Muqdisho [12 June 1993]

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the sheer scale of it is unbelievable

Mr.Wukro

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It’s honestly mindblowing just how much the USSR armed the Derg.

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Deeply upsetting/enraging story. Drone fired at a mosque, then fired at a farm full of civilians fleeing for refuge and then fired again at civilians who came to help survivors at the farm. 14 of the 23 civilians murdered were children. To top it all off the next day Somali gov

Ahmed Saylici

@Adal_empire_

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Both the governments of Somalia and Turkiye are facing accusations of committing war crimes in Somalia: Death of 23 civilians in military strikes with Turkish drones may amount to war crimes – new investigation by Amnesty International

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Lower Jubba region [1972]

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😭some random farax just up and walked away with CIA intel

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Somali Nomads (in white) at a market in Xuddur [1969]

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The U.S. governments attempt to crush the Somali economy after the 9/11 attacks should never be forgotten

Somali Institute of Chinese Studies

@Somali_ICS

1 year

In 2006, the US withdrew its $dollar based asset freeze on Al-Barakaat after finding no evidence that the company was involved in financing terrorism activities. It was proven that Al-Barakaat had no link to terrorism forcing the US & the UN to remove the firm from the blacklist.

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❌🇺🇸🇺🇳 🚬🚬🚬

U.S. Embassy Mogadishu, Somalia

@US2SOMALIA

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Today, @US2Somalia held a moment of silence to honor the 🇺🇸 U.S. service members killed in Mogadishu October 3-4, 1993.” #30thAnniversary

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Rare clip of civilian recruits in Kismaayo mobilizing to join the Islamic Courts in the last days before the full scale Ethiopian invasion began. Two days after this video was filmed the first exchanges of gunfire and artillery began on the front line. [December 17th 2006]

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Ugaas Maxamed Weli AUN of the Mareexaan clan rallying the public to support the Islamic Courts Union mujaahideen in Kismaayo against the looming western backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia. (Oct 2006)

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A 20 year old Islamic Courts Union soldier posing for a photo in Muqdisho [2006]

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'Many Ethiopians have died for the peace of Somalia. No country has paid as much as Ethiopia for the peace of Somalia.' unbelievably shameless people

Office of the Prime Minister - Ethiopia

@PMEthiopia

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"Ethiopia has no intention of causing harm to Somalia." #PMAbiyResponds #PMOEthiopia

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Baraawe [1972]

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The Old Parliament building in Muqdisho [70s & 80s]

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@weinercasanova @ACLU and they've attempted worse in the past

US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies

www.smh.com.au

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Footage of the Somali Democratic Republic’s anti-desertification campaign during the 1970s

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Yet another gem💎

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Digging through university archives and came across this booklet from 1965

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[July 1st 1960]

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Assembly Chamber of Somali parliament (1956)

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Baraawe [1972]

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If I'm not mistaken, this is the first Somali drone combat footage ever released?

SNTV News

@sntvnews1

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The State Media has released the first episode of planned operations targeting #Alshabab terrorists. The terrorists suffered a huge loss in this air and ground offensive.

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Reading about CIA operations in Muqdisho during 1993 and this killed me. Turns out the CIA's 'best Somali agent' was playing Russian Roulette and drinking when he ate a bullet. The other Somali agent ended up being killed by US helicopters firing indiscriminately in the city.

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Former PM Ali Gedi, the man who helped raise an Ethiopian flag over Muqdisho during the occupation, accusing a politician of treason for colluding with Ethiopia. Very same man who worked as one of the most high profile sock puppets of the Ethiopian/American invasion of 2006-2009.

Ayaanle Hussein Abdi

@ha_noolaato

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Raysal wasaarihi hore ee dalka, Mudane. Cali Maxamed Geeddi ayaa wareysi gaar ah oo uu siiyay #hanoolaato , ku sheegay in ay tahay in Maxkamad la soo taago Madaxweynaha #Somaliland Muuse Biixi Cabdi oo uu ku eedeeyay in uu galay Khiyaano Qaran, xilli uu Pof. Geeddi ka hadlayay

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@Makahil007 Bush Sr. chose to throw in an absurd 30k troops instead of the mere 3-5k 'needed' in Bay and Bakool because of the Powell doctrine. Clinton messed things up bad but Bush Sr. dropped the ball from the very start by making the operation far in excess of what was needed.

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Footage of Islamic Courts Union mujahideen defending Buurhakaba and its environs during the 2006 invasion sometime around December 23rd-25th

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Rare clip of civilian recruits in Kismaayo mobilizing to join the Islamic Courts in the last days before the full scale Ethiopian invasion began. Two days after this video was filmed the first exchanges of gunfire and artillery began on the front line. [December 17th 2006]

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Great news out of Sudan. Inshallah the RSF continues to get curbstomped.

Sudan War Monitor

@sudanwarmonitor

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The Sudanese army today defeated a breakout attempt by the Rapid Support Forces in eastern Omdurman, and overran large amounts of territory in the neighborhoods known as Old Omdurman. RSF resistance in the sector has largely collapsed.

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Cigarette card art from early 20th century depicting Somali horseman armed with a spear and a rifle

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@khanman96 common theme on a few platforms

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Rare footage filmed by Al-Jazeera of Islamic Courts Union mujahiidin on the front line during the fourth day of the full scale invasion [Dec. 22nd 2006]

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Lot of words just to say ‘keep foreign troops in Somalia forever please’. Expect to hear a lot more of this kinda talk as the ATMIS departure deadline draws nearer. The endless cycle…

Shabelle Media Network

@ShabelleMedia

24 days

Kenya's President William Ruto says Al Shabaab will take over Somalia if African Union troops leave. President Ruto said he raised his concern with President Hassan Sheikh on ATMIS troop drawdown. Ruto also urged U.S. to pause the departure of ATMIS troops. Video: @Kenyans

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@walaalwhoops

9 months

No filter 1964 War Radio Mogadishu💪🇸🇴

Africa Archives ™

@Africa_Archives

9 months

Say something about Haile Selassie.

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@walaalwhoops

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fake caption from a book that only mentions Somalis once, but it's REALLY interesting that Ethiopian nationalists think attacking completely outnumbered Somalis who were under a colonial arms embargo (all while Abyssinia received massive arms shipments) is a flex worthy

Demi☦️

@rasDemi

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Ras Mekonnen's men returning after a successful slave raid on a Somali village. (near Balad, Somalia 1904-05)

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