Definitions

1. Ogaden is a region in eastern Ethiopia with a majority population of Somalis. (Web site)

Ogaden Region

1. In the mid-1970s, the Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF) began guerrilla operations in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia. (Web site)
2. In mid-2007, reports emerged concerning the tactics Ethiopian troops are employing to defeat the ONLF in the Ogaden region. (Web site)

Alliance

1. His mother Timiro Sade came from the Ali Geri sublineage of the Dhulbahante clan, which was an alliance to the Ogaden.

Kenya

1. The floods also destroyed shelters housing 25,000 Somali refugees in Kenya near Dorooro in Ogaden.

November 23

1. November 23 - An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, which lay well within Ethiopian territory. (Web site)

Eastern Parts

1. They live in both the western and eastern parts of the northwestern Somaliland region of Somalia, as well as in the Ogaden.

Eastern Ethiopia

1. In the late 1920s, Italian and Somali influence expanded into the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia. (Web site)

Onlf

1. The ONLF issued a report stating that the ENDF killed 48 civilians and wounded 50 on December 17 in Mooyaha village (23 miles northwest of Dagabur, Ogaden).
2. A profile of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), a separatist group operating in eastern Ethiopia.
3. Armed elements of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) continued to operate within the country. (Web site)

War

1. In the 1970s, Somalia invaded Ethiopia in support of local Somali rebels, particularly during the Ogaden War, but was defeated.

Somali

1. The major Somali regular units were forced out of the Ogaden in March 1978. (Web site)
2. Somali is dominant among inhabitants of the Ogaden and Hawd, while Afar is most common in the Denakil Plain.
3. The Somali, who live in the east and southeast, notably in the Ogaden region, are about equal in number to the Shangalla. (Web site)

Oromo

1. Oromo, Ogaden, Sidama Afar, are people who were oppressed by tyranny.
2. As an Ethiopian, who just came back a few months ago, i must agree that there are abuses in Ogaden and Oromo as well as our Amhara regions. (Web site)

Region

1. In 1964, war was fought over Ogaden region and ogaden won but US and UK come to rescue ethiopia.
2. Islam in Ethiopia is in the Oromo and Ogaden region. (Web site)
3. In the middle of 1977, Somalia intended upon wresting control of the Ogaden region from Ethiopia.

Bale

1. The lowlands of both Bale and Harerge encompassed Ethiopia's portion of the Ogaden.

Eritrea

1. In its most extreme form, resistance to Amhara dominance resulted in enduring separatist movements, particularly in Eritrea, Tigray, and the Ogaden. (Web site)

Ethiopian Government

1. The Ethiopian government has waged a long-term war against the Ogaden, suppressing the region and its people. (Web site)
2. Years of neglect and war have left Ogaden in a state of turmoil, and human rights abuses by the Ethiopian government are commonplace. (Web site)

Ethiopia

1. By March 1978, Ethiopia and its allies regained control over the Ogaden.
2. From there, they went to a point northeast of Nairobi, Kenya, likely across Somalia and the Ogaden area of Ethiopia. (Web site)
3. The number of Somali in Ethiopia in the late 1980s--given the Ogaden War and the movement of refugees--was uncertain. (Web site)

Somali Region

1. In Ethiopia, the ban will affect the Somali Region, including the Ogaden, which has been the epicentre of a regional drought. (Web site)
2. In June HRW issued a report alleging that the ENDF committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Ogaden area of the Somali Region.

Somalis

1. There are no ´Somali Ethiopians´; Somalis of Ogaden have nothing in common with Amhara and Tigray cannibals.
2. Somalis in the Ogaden are the poorest, least educated, most unemployed, most persecuted and most jailed of Ethiopians. (Web site)

Somalia

1. The moderates, under Jess, favored an alliance with the SNM and USC and believed that Somalia should abandon its claims to the Ogaden. (Web site)
2. However, Somalia continued to promote irredentism by supporting the Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF), which was active in the Ogaden.
3. The order spread first among the Somalis of the Ogaden area of Ethiopia, who entered Somalia about 1880. (Web site)

Ogaden

1. Although Somalia and Ethiopia signed a joint communiqué in 1988 to end hostilities, Mogadishu refused to abandon its claim to the Ogaden. (Web site)
2. Mengistu found himself with a discontented population, frequent famine, war in Eritrea, Ogaden and Tigray.
3. Somali people of Africa occupying all of Somalia, a strip of Djibouti, the southern Ethiopian region of Ogaden, and part of northwestern Kenya.

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1. World > Countries > States > Somalia
2. Somalis
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