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In 2007, the Ethiopian Army launched a military crackdown in Ogaden after Ogaden rebels killed dozens of civilian staff workers and guards at an Ethiopian oil field. [67] The main rebel group is the Ogaden National Liberation Front under its Chairman Mohamed O. Osman, which is fighting against the Ethiopian government.
The Ethiopian Government denied these reports on November 20. [18] On November 28, 2007, Ogaden residents described continued abuses on the part of the military, but also said that aid delivery had improved. [19] UN humanitarian chief John Holmes said the humanitarian situation in Ogaden as "potentially serious" but not yet catastrophic. [19]
The Ethiopian government argued that the conflict was a result of armed bandits being sent across the border by Somalia to harass the country into ceding a large slice of Ethiopian territory, to which the Somali government repeatedly denied that the it either inspired or fomented the troubles in Ogaden.
[3] 65 to 74 Ethiopian troops were killed in the attack, along with nine Chinese workers on site at the time. The ONLF stated that the attack had been launched to prevent the 'colonialist' Ethiopian government from exploiting the Ogaden regions natural resources. [6] [3] [7] The day of the attack a spokesman for the ONLF in London announced: [3]
The Ethiopian government argued that the conflict was a result of armed bandits being sent across the border by Somalia to harass the country into ceding a large slice of Ethiopian territory, to which the Somali government repeatedly denied that the it either inspired or fomented the troubles in Ogaden.
Members of the Ogaden clan primarily live in the central Ogaden plateau of Ethiopia (Somali Region), [5] the North Eastern Province of Kenya, and the Jubaland region of Southern Somalia. [ 6 ] According to Human Rights Watch in 2008, the Ogaden is the largest Darod clan in Ethiopia's Somali Region, and may account for 40 to 50 percent of the ...
After the Ogaden War, the Ethiopian army only remained in full control of the Ogaden for a very brief period of time. [34] During a conference on 11 March 1978, WSLF head Abdullahi Mahmoud Hassan declared that despite the withdrawal of the Somali army forces deployed to support it, the front would continue its liberation struggle.
The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front assumed power by creating a coalition of ethno-nationalist movements from across the country, choosing the previously marginalised Ogaden National Liberation Front as its ally in Ogaden. ONLF's previously exiled leadership returned from exile, gaining the support of local population.