Prime Minister Abdirashid Shermarke and Kenyan Leader Yomo Kenyatta during the latter’s official visit to Somalia. [July 1962]Somali President Aden Osman and Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie in Addis Ababa during the Summit Conference of the African Heads of State. [1963]Siad Barre, then commander in the Somali National Army, photographed in Mogadishu while talking with foreign press during the NFD crisis [1963]Portrait of Prime Minister of the Somali Republic Abdirashid Ali Shermarke [1960s]Somalis in Wajir, Northern Frontier District, demonstrate in support of 38 local tribal chiefs who resigned to protest Britain’s refusal to allow union with Somalia. The chiefs had demanded the right to secede from Kenya and join the Somali Republic. [April 1963]
Legislative Assembly chamber of Somali Parliament [1960]Prime Minister Abdirazak Haji Hussein and President Aden Abdulle Osman in a motorcade. [1964]Portrait of President Aden Abdulle Osman [1960s]Prime Minister Shermake with Chairman Mao during an official visit to China. [1963]
The Somali History Archive 