The World - News from Dec. 29, 1986

Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre was officially declared the winner of last week’s presidential elections, in which he was unopposed, and officials predicted an early Cabinet reshuffle. Somalia’s Electoral Commission said that Siad Barre, 67, won another seven-year term by garnering 99.93% of the 4.8 million votes cast Dec. 23. Siad Barre came to power in a 1969 coup, and since 1976, he has ruled the country as a one-party state through his Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party.