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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.
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 ...
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 ...
The Somali Democratic Party (SDP; Somali: Xisbiga Dimuqraadiga Soomaalida), formerly the Ethiopian Somali People's Democratic Party, was a political party in Ethiopia, created by the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) after refusing Somali demands for self-determination in 1993.
A British war report in 1903 stated that Kaladi Madlay was the head of the Ogaden tribe: [2] Kaladi Madlay, of the Qgaden tribe, who generally follows the Mullah some days after each movement. These men are the heads of their respective tribes, and are all wealthy and powerful.
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 Jidwaq clan primarily inhabit the Somali Region of Ethiopia, [6] [7] (where they live in the Jigjiga area), [8] the North Eastern Province of Kenya and the Jubaland region of southern Somalia (where they live south of Bu'ale). [9] The name Jidwaaq means "the path of God" in the Somali language. [10]
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.