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During the new region's founding conference, which was held in Dire Dawa in 1992, the naming of the region became a divisive issue, because almost 30 different ethnic Somali clans live in the region. The ONLF sought to name the region 'Ogadenia', whilst the non-Ogadeni Somali clans who live in the same region opposed this move.
The Somali Region (Somali: Deegaanka Soomaalida, Amharic: ሱማሌ ክልል, romanized: Sumalē Kilil, Arabic: المنطقة الصومالية), also known as Ogadenia (Soomaali Galbeed) (lit. ' Western Somalia ') [3] and officially the Somali Regional State, is a regional state in eastern Ethiopia. Its territory is the largest. [4]
Flag of Galmudug State: Same as Somalia's national flag. 2009–2010: Flag of Galmudug State [11] 2010–2015: Flag of Galmudug State [12] [13] 2009– Flag of Puntland State: A horizontal tricolor of blue, white and green with a white star at the top. [14] [15] –2009: Flag of Puntland State: Same as Somalia's national flag. 2012–2017 2023 ...
The post-independence governments of the Somali Republic (1960-1969) and the Somali Democratic Republic (1969-1991) expended significant effort towards the unification of the NFD and French Somaliland with Somalia, however their primary focus was the Ogaden region, which had been occupied by Ethiopia since Menelik's invasions in the 1890s. [4]
The flag was initially used within the Trust Territory of Somaliland [1] before being adopted by the short-lived State of Somaliland and the Somali Republic. It is an ethnic flag for the Somali people ; the flag's five-pointed star represents the five regions in which Somalis reside.
Somalia, [a] officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, [b] is the easternmost country in continental Africa. The country is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti [14] to the northwest, Kenya to the southwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, and the Indian Ocean to the east.
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 ...
Somalia is officially divided into 18 administrative regions (gobollo, singular gobol). [1] These are in turn subdivided into seventy-two districts (plural degmooyin ; singular degmo ) On a de facto basis, northern Somalia is now divided up among the autonomous region of Puntland In central Somalia, Galmudug is another regional entity that ...