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ONLF Press Release May 31, 2015 The Special killing squads of the Ethiopian Regional Administration in Ogaden called the Liyu police, which is funded, trained and armed by the Ethiopian government has committed genocide in the villages near Shilaabo district of Ogaden along the Somali border, killing hundreds of civilians and burning several villages. Among the dead are more […]
Joint Statement regarding the Fake Election in Ethiopia May 25, 2015 The Ogaden National Liberation Front, The Oromo Liberation Front and the Sidama Liberation front categorically state that the so called elections held in Ethiopia on May 24, 2015, was not an expression of the democratic will of the all the peoples in Ethiopia. All Nations in Ethiopia were bullied […]
Exporting and Using Ogaden Gas Will Not Happen Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) Press Release March 29, 2015 The Statement by the Ethiopian Prime Minister that “In two years, we plan to start exporting and using natural gas from those areas (Ogaden)” as reported by Reuters on March 27, 2015 from Addis Ababa has no basis in reality and […]
Dispatch: Ogaden Battle Front Wednesday, December 3, 2014 The Ogaden National Liberation Army reported that it killed 14 Ethiopian regime soldiers and wounded 16 in skirmishes in parts of the Ogaden. The Liberation Army further reported that it ambushed and destroyed a Russian Made Ural full of soldiers. The Ethiopian Army is currently trying to evict agro-pastoralists from their traditional […]
Ogaden National Liberation Front ONLF Memorandum ONLF’S RESPONSE to Somalia-Eritrea Monitoring Group (S/ 2014/727) November 6, 2014 ABSTRACT Somalia Eritrea Monitoring Group published a report claiming that Eritrea has violated the UN ‘s Arms Embargo on Somalia, using ONLF. In the Report the group made malicious allegations about ONLF using dubious sources and interviewing prisoners who had been tortured by […]
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 […]
ONLF Press Release October 2, 2014 Deteriorating Humanitarian Situation in the Ogaden The Ogaden National Liberation Front would like to inform the international community of a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Ogaden. People and their livestock are dying as a result of a drought for the second year running coupled with an economic blockade and manipulation of aid and trade […]
ONLF statement August 28 – 2014 Abdiweli Gaas, the previous Somali PM who now rules Puntland, has recently stomped to Ethiopia, claiming that he no longer recognizes the Somali Federal government, seeking help from the Ethiopian regime which is known to encourage any spoiler like Abdiweli in order to destabilize the effort to rebuild the Somali Republic. Instead of going […]
A man claiming to be the Governor of Bakool Region of Somalia told the VOA Somali service that a joint ONLF Liberation Army and Al-Shabab forces fought the Ethiopian Army and Somali National Army along the Somalia – Ogaden border on June 2-3, 2014. The Ogaden National liberation front did not take part in that fighting nor in any other […]
ONLF Press Release May 14, 2014 Djibouti regime has arbitrarily detained yesterday thirty refugees in Djibouti city in collaboration with Ethiopian security who transported them to the torture fields in Ethiopia such as the notorious Jail Ogaden in Jigjiga. Reliable sources indicate that the Djibouti regime has done this criminal action as retaliation against the support of Ogaden Diaspora communities […]
