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This page contains a list of the Presidents of Somalia.

IncumbentTenureAffiliation
Somali Republic
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar1 July 1960 – 10 June 1967Somali Youth League (SYL)
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke10 June 1967 – 15 October 1969Somali Youth League (SYL)
Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein (interim)15 October 1969 – 21 October 1969Somali Youth League (SYL)
Somali Democratic Republic
Muhammad Siad Barre21 October 1969 – 27 January 1991Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party (SRSP)
Interim Presidents
Ali Mahdi MohamedJanuary 1991 – 15 June 1995United Somali Congress (USC)
Mohamed Farrah Aidid15 June 1995 – 1 August 1996Somali National Alliance (SNA)
Hussein Mohamed Farrah Aidid2 August 1996 – 22 December 1997Somali National Alliance (SNA)
Vacant22 December 1997 – 27 August 2000
Republic of Somalia
Abdiqasim Salad Hassan27 August 2000 – 14 October 2004Transitional National Government (TNG)
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed14 October 2004 – 29 December 2008Transitional Federal Government (TFG)
Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe (interim)29 December 2008 – 31 January 2009Transitional Federal Government (TFG)
Sharif Ahmed31 January 2009 – Present

Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS)

Somalia's President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed arrives for a news conference at the police headquarters in Mogadishu February 9, 2009. [Agencies]

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Timeline: Somalia

A chronology of key events:

600s - Arab tribes establish the sultanate of Adel on the Gulf of Aden coast.

Mogadishu skyline pictured in 1977
Somali capital, Mogadishu, in more peaceful times
Emerged as Arab settlement in 10th century
Bought by Italy in 1905
Capital of independent Somalia from 1960
Estimated population: 1 million

1500s - Sultanate of Adel disintegrates into small states.

1875 - Egypt occupies towns on Somali coast and parts of the interior.

1860s - France acquires foothold on the Somali coast, later to become Djibouti.

1887 - Britain proclaims protectorate over Somaliland.

1888 - Anglo-French agreement defines boundary between Somali possessions of the two countries.

1889 - Italy sets up a protectorate in central Somalia, later consolidated with territory in the south ceded by the sultan of Zanzibar.

1925 - Territory east of the Jubba river detached from Kenya to become the westernmost part of the Italian protectorate.

1936 - Italian Somaliland combined with Somali-speaking parts of Ethiopia to form a province of Italian East Africa.

1940 - Italians occupy British Somaliland.

1941 - British occupy Italian Somalia.

Independence

1950 - Italian Somaliland becomes a UN trust territory under Italian control.

Ruins of parliament building, Mogadishu, 2003
Parliament in ruins: War devastated much of Mogadishu

1956 - Italian Somaliland renamed Somalia and granted internal autonomy.

1960 - British and Italian parts of Somalia become independent, merge and form the United Republic of Somalia; Aden Abdullah Osman Daar elected president.

1963 - Border dispute with Kenya; diplomatic relations with Britain broken until 1968.

1964 - Border dispute with Ethiopia erupts into hostilities.

1967 - Abdi Rashid Ali Shermarke beats Aden Abdullah Osman Daar in elections for president.

Drought and war

1969 - Muhammad Siad Barre assumes power in coup after Shermarke is assassinated.

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