Somali National University (SNU)

Founded 1954 (as Istituto Universitario della Somalia under Italian Trusteeship Administration); reorganised as Somali National University 1971; collapsed 1991 (civil war); restored and reopened 2014. Somalia's federal flagship national university, located in Mogadishu. Founded 1954 as the Istituto Universitario della Somalia under the Italian Trusteeship Administration; reorganised as the Somali National University in 1971 under the Siad Barre government. Collapsed alongside the Somali state during the 1991 civil war and remained closed for 23 years. Officially restored and reopened in 2014 after Federal Government of Somalia reconstitution efforts. Among the oldest higher-education institutions in the Horn of Africa region. Multi-faculty model covering medicine, engineering, agriculture, education, and humanities.

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