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- Somalia Chronology
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- The lands of the Somalis became UK and Italian colonies in the 1880s.
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- * 1941û1950 UK rules both areas.
- * 1960 Unification at independence.
- * 1964 Somalia's claim to Ogaden leads to war with Ethiopia.
- * 1969 Gen. Siad Barre seizes power.
- * 1977╨1978 Attack on Ethiopia fails.
- * 1981 Two opposition groups based in Ethiopia begin guerrilla war.
- * 1987 Reconciliation with Ethiopia induces Somali National Movement group to occupy north.
- * 1991 Siad Barre ousted. War degenerates into clan chaos. Mass starvation. Somaliland secedes.
- * 1992 Warlords plunder food aid. US sends in military with UN backing.
- * 1994 US troops withdrawn.