This article is about the civil war faction. For the state army SNA, see Somali National Army.
Political party in Somalia
Somali National Alliance
Isbahaysiga Qaranka Soomaaliyeed
Abbreviation
SNA
Chairman
Mohamed Farrah Aidid Osman Ali Atto Hussein Farrah Aidid
Founded
16 June 1992 (16 June 1992)
Dissolved
2002 (2002)
Split from
United Somali Congress
Merged into
Somalia Reconciliation and Restoration Council and Transitional National Government
Headquarters
Mogadishu
Ideology
Hawiye interests Anti-Siad Barre Anti-colonialism Somali nationalism National Reconciliation
Religion
Sunni Islam
Politics of Somalia
Political parties
Elections
The Somali National Alliance (abbreviated SNA) was a major politico-military faction formed on 16 June 1992 by four different rebel groups that had been in opposition to the regime of former Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre. The SNA was the first major inter-clan and inter-factional political alliance and was considered to be among the most powerful factions of the Somali Civil War. The alliance would most notably face off against the second phase of the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM II) in the latter half of 1993.
Following the 1991 split in the United Somali Congress (USC) between Mohamed Farah Aidid and his primary rival Ali Mahdi Muhammad and the routing of Barre's forces out of Somalia and into Kenya during 1992, a tentative military coalition that had existed between different rebel organizations would morph into the politico-military organization known as the SNA. The alliance would include Aidid's breakaway wing of the USC, the Somali Patriotic Movement (SPM), the Somali Southern National Movement (SSNM) and Somali Democratic Movement (SDM). The organization professed the goal of working toward forming a national reconciliation government and an eventual multi-party democracy.
The SNA would ultimately become the core of the Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC), formed in 2001, which would be incorporated into the internationally recognized Transitional National Government in 2002.
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