SOMALIA: SOMALI CAPITAL, MOGADISHU, PARTIALLY IN RUINS AFTER OVERTHROW OF PRESIDENT MOHAMED SIAD BARRE

Record ID: 567159

  • Title: SOMALIA: SOMALI CAPITAL, MOGADISHU, PARTIALLY IN RUINS AFTER OVERTHROW OF PRESIDENT MOHAMED SIAD BARRE
  • Date: 31st January 1991
  • Summary: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (JANUARY 30, 1991) 1. TS STREET SCENE/BURNT OUT TANK 0.05 2. GV/SV ARMED MEN/ARMED WOMAN BY TANK (2 SHOTS) 0.14 3. GV'S BODIES IN STREET (2 SHOTS) 0.31 4. SV PULL BACK TO GV - WOODEN AID BOX FROM UNITED STATES AND SPENT SHELLS 0.46 5. GV/SV - CIVILIANS IN STREET/PEOPLE SELLING FOOD (2 SHOTS) 0.53 6. GV - ARMED MEN IN JEEP 0.58 7. SV - PRESIDENT AND USC LEADER SEATED, SPEAKING IN SOMALI (SOUND INDISTINCT) 1.10 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 15th February 1991 12:00
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  • Location: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
  • Country: Somalia
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA5NJLIW0DRKGEVHXDV4RFJCL6L
  • Story Text: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

    The first television pictures out of Somalia since the overthrow of President Siad Barre confirmed the capital, Mogadishu, was largely in ruins on Wednesday (January 30) following a month of street battles which ended in the overthrow of former President Mohamed Siad Barre on Saturday (January 27).

    The city and Mogadishu airport were under the control of the rebel United Somali Congress (USC), the largest of the rebel groups who fought Siad Barre.

    Precise casualty figures are unknown, but the USC claims that more than 4,000 people, most of them civilians, were killed in the fighting and in the former government's shelling of residential areas.

    The country's new President, 52-year-old Ali Mahdi Mohamed, and the USC President, Dr. Hussein Haji Mohamed Bood, promised to hold elections and establish unity after the 22-year old rule of Siad Barre.

    <strong>Source: REUTERS - MOHAMED AMIN</strong>
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