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Declaration of Unilateral Ceasefire (ONLF)

Declaration of Unilateral Ceasefire (ONLF)

Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) Declaration of Unilateral Ceasefire 12 August 2018 Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) Declaration of Unilateral Ceasefire 12 August 2018 The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) Considering the call for peace by the current Ethiopian government Leader Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Taking into account the positive steps taken by the Ethiopian government to lay the ground […]

 
 

Ethiopian Army Forcefully Evacuates Pastoralists for Oil Exploration in Ogaden

Ethiopian Army  Forcefully Evacuates Pastoralists  for Oil Exploration in Ogaden

  ONLA Military Communiqué October 15, 2015  The Ethiopian Army has deployed a division in three adjacent regions around Jeexdin (Calub) and Elele (Hilala) oil and gas fields. The Army is forcefully evacuating  thousands of pastoralist families,  dislocating them from vast swaths of the rural areas from Godey to Qalafe and Wardheer regions. The Army has created exclusion zones near […]

 
 

Ogaden Fossil Fuel Will Not Be Exploited Without the Consent of the Ogaden People through a Genuine Representative Government

Ogaden Fossil Fuel Will Not Be Exploited Without the Consent of the Ogaden People through a Genuine Representative Government

ONLF Press Release October14, 2014 ONLF is aware that a Chinese group and the Ethiopian regime are attempting to start exploiting Oil and Gas Resources in Ogaden at Jeexdin Gas fields, without the consent of the Ogaden people. Since the Ethiopian Army does not exercise full control of the Ogaden and ONLF is determined and can defend the Ogaden people’s […]

 
 

Military Communique – Ethiopian Army’s aggression intended to pave the Way for Chinese exploitation of Ogaden Oil and Gas disrupted

Military Communique – Ethiopian Army’s aggression intended to pave the Way for Chinese exploitation of Ogaden Oil and Gas disrupted

  September 1 2011 Ogaden National Liberation Front Brigades from the Ethiopian Army in Ba’bili, Jigjiga, Degahmadow and Degahbur have launched a joint attack against ONLF forces on the 30th of August, after the Ogaden National Liberation Army (ONLA) pushed back Elite troops from the Prime Ministers Special Forces who were trying to escort a Chinese team to Obole oil […]

 
 

ONLF Communiqué Regarding Release of WFP workers

ONLF Communiqué Regarding Release of WFP workers

June 28 2011 The Ogaden National Liberation front has transferred the two WFP staff members to WFP representatives near the border of Somalia on June 27 2011. For almost a month the Ethiopian Army and security forces has set up many obstacles in order to stop all attempts by ONLF to hand over the two staff members. In order to […]

 
 

Ethiopia Deploys Helicopter Gunships in a Bid to Recapture WFP Workers

Ethiopia Deploys Helicopter Gunships in a Bid to Recapture WFP Workers

29 May 2011 The Ethiopian Army has deployed since yesterday helicopter gunships and more than a division of its forces in the Ogaden in a bid to recapture and silence WFP workers liberated by ONLF on May 26 in Galalshe. The Liberation Army is doing its best to ensure that the WFP workers to be placed in safe and secure […]

 
 

Communiqué about WFP Abducted Workers

Communiqué about WFP Abducted Workers

26 May 2011 The Ogaden National Liberation Army of ONLF has captured the Town of Galalshe in Jigjiga Region near Babili. Causalities from the Meles Army (ENDF) were heavy and some remnants escaped to Babili town. ONLA captured armaments, ammunition, and logistics. The Liberation Army found hundreds of civilians prisoners detained in the Galalshe Jail who were tortured and badly […]

 
 

ONLF Military Communiqué

ONLF Military Communiqué

ONLF November 7, 2010 The Ogaden national Liberation Front Army- is continuing its offensive against Ethiopian Army troops in the Ogaden. During the months of October and the beginning of November It has conducted 34 tactical and strategic military operations, killing 267 Ethiopian Army Soldiers and wounding 157. Casualty on the ONLF side was minimal. The latest fighting occurred on […]

 
 

O.N.L.F Military Communique’

O.N.L.F Military Communique’

21 September 2010 Heavy fighting continues in Ogaden for the 6th straight day in several provinces in Ogaden including Qorahay, Nogob, Shabelle, Shiniile,Doolo, Jarar and the area between Jijiga and Harar. A total of 183 of the TPLF/EPRDF regime’s troops have been killed thus far with 3 armored vehicles destroyed. This offensive code name “Operation Flag Bearer” (“calan side” in […]

 
 

ONLF Military communiqué’

ONLF Military communiqué’

The allegation that ONLF has redeployed troops from overseas into Ogaden has no element of truth and unsubstantiated. ONLF does not need to train people outside of Ogaden. It has 16 years of fighting experience and ONLF’s all training needs takes place inside the country. The intention of such Ethiopian fabrication is to hide the fact that ONLF forces had […]