Somali Youth League

The Somali Youth League (English Somali Youth League, abbreviation SYL ) was the first political party of Somalia and has played a significant role in the independence of the country in 1960.

Development

During the Second World War, Britain occupied the former colony of Italian Somaliland and administered then the area from 1941-1950 (in addition to its own colony of British Somaliland ). During this time, the Somali Youth League was founded in 1943, which should succeed in all Somali clans to a politically and Somalia to lead to independence. Given growing political pressure from Italy, which was both the whereabouts of Great Britain in its colony and Somali independence movement hostile to the British and Somali saw their allies. This brought the British colonial administration to support the political organization of the Somali. As a result, the Somali Youth Club was founded in 1943 in Mogadishu, the first political party of Somalia.

To promote the new party, the British allowed the better educated police officers and community service workers to join. In 1947, the party renamed itself the Somali Youth League and began to open offices, not only in the two British managed Somaliland colonies, but also in the Ethiopian Ogaden and in the Kenyan Northern Frontier District. These areas are both inhabited mainly by Somali. The declared aims of the SYL were the union of all inhabited by Somali territories - including the Ogaden and northeastern Kenya - and to a " Greater Somalia ", the creation of educational opportunities, the development of Somali language by creating a nationally standardized orthography, representing Somali interests the resistance to the re-establishment of the Italian government. Since the policy of the SYL also rejected the traditional clan system of the Somali, refused the 13 founding members to announce their clan affiliation. The SYL enjoyed support across the country; in the north, the former British Somaliland and Somaliland today, however, were the Somali National League, mainly associated with the Isaaq, and supported by the Dir and Darod United Somali Party, the strongest parties.

Although Italian Somaliland still legally was an Italian colony, it was decided at the Potsdam Conference in 1945, not to return it to Italy. Instead, it was made ​​in 1949 by the UN General Assembly on the Trust Territory under Italian administration from 1950 to 1960 - while the SYL, which sought immediate independence, protested in vain - and then granted independence. In the first Somali elections on 30 March 1964, the SYL won an absolute majority of 69 of the 123 parliamentary seats; the remainder were divided among eleven parties. Five years later, in the general elections of March 1969, the SYL under Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal was able to retain power. In the same year she was overthrown by the coup Siad Barre.

Members

  • Past Party
  • Party in Somalia
  • History ( Somalia)
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