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2. 2007–2008 Ethiopian crackdown in Ogaden - Wikipedia

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   The 2007–2008 Ethiopian crackdown in Ogaden was a military campaign by the Ethiopian Army against the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF). The crackdown against the guerrillas began after they killed over 60 Ethiopian troops and several foreign workers during a raid on a Chinese-run oil exploration field in April 2007.

3. Ogaden - Wikipedia

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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.

4. Ogaden (clan) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. 1963–1965 Ogaden rebellion - Wikipedia

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   In his first post-war visit to the region, Ethiopian Emperor Halie Selassie announced on 25 August 1956 that the Somali people were, "...by race, colour, blood and customs members of the great Ethiopian family". He advised Ogaden residents to accept cultural assimilation by learning the Amharic language, dismissed the possibility of the Ogaden ...

6. Raid on Abole oil exploration facility - Wikipedia

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   [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]

7. Insurgency in Ogaden - Wikipedia

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   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.

8. Ogaden War - Wikipedia

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   The Ogaden War, also known as the Ethio-Somali War (Somali: Dagaalkii Xoraynta Soomaali Galbeed, Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ሶማሊያ ጦርነት, romanized: ye’ītiyop’iya somalīya t’orinet), was a military conflict fought between Somalia and Ethiopia from July 1977 to March 1978 over the sovereignty of Ogaden.

9. Somalis in Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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   According to the 2007 census from the Central Statistical Authority, the Somalis were the third largest ethnic group in Ethiopia with roughly 4.6 million people [1] accounting for 8.2% of the country's population, after the Oromo (34.4%) and Amhara (27%). [3] The Somali population in Ethiopia make up around 30% of the total Somali population ...