United Nations Operation in Somalia I

United Nations Operation in Somalia I (UNOSOM I) was the first part of a United Nations (UN) sponsored effort to provide, facilitate, and secure humanitarian relief in Somalia, as well as to monitor the first UN-brokered ceasefire of the Somali Civil War conflict in the early 1990s.

United Nations Operation in Somalia I
AbbreviationUNOSOM I
FormationApril 1992
TypePeacekeeping Mission
Legal statusCompleted
HeadquartersMogadishu, Somalia
Special Representative of the Secretary-general (SRSG)
Chief Military Observer
 Mohamed Sahnoun April 1992 - November 1992

Ismat Kittani November 1992 - March 1993
Brig. Gen. Imtiaz Shaheen June 1992 - March 1993

Jonathan T. Howe March 1993
Parent organization
United Nations Security Council
WebsiteOfficial site in English


The operation was established in April 1992 and ran until its duties were assumed by the Unified Task Force (UNITAF) mission in December 1992. Following the dissolution of UNITAF in May 1993, the subsequent UN mission in Somalia was known as UNOSOM II.

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