22 January 2012 Buckinghamshire, UK The Ogaden National Liberation Front executive Committee held its first Ordinary Session of 2012 between 19 t0 22 January 2012 in a town in Buckinghamshire, UK. The executive committee evaluated the current situation regarding the Ogaden national liberation Struggle for the emancipation and liberation of the Somali people under Ethiopian rule, the overall situation of […]
ONLF Military Communique January 18 2012 The Ethiopia Army started conducting its seasonal harassment and subjugation campaign against the civilian people in Ogaden. Troops from Wardheer, Qabri-dehar and Dhegahbur regions started manoeuvring and harassing civilians in towns and villages around those areas. Ethiopian troops from the garrisons of Wardheer, Qorile and Danod converged near the twon of Caado and […]
December 27, 2011 The unjust prison sentence of Swedish Journalists, Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson is an evidence of the nature of Addis Ababa regime as a terror regime, which do not respect Human Rights, and freedom of press. By sentencing these innocent two journalists the Ethiopian regime headed by Meles Zenawi has blatantly violated article 19 of the Universal […]
ONLF Press Release December 22, 2011 The Ogaden National Liberation Front condemns with the strongest possible terms the unjust conviction of the two Swedish Journalists that entered the Ogaden to investigate the Human Rights abuses perpetrated by the tyrannical regime of Meles Zenawi. This heinous act is a clear and unequivocal intension by the Ethiopian regime to frighten and terrorize […]
October 26, 2011 From Mid-October, the Ethiopian Army has started forcefully relocating thousands of families in the rural areas around Obole where the Chinese Company, PetroTrans, is conducting illegal oil exploration. The Ethiopian Army is rounding up all adults and detaining them in few designated villages around the road between Jigjiga and Degahbur, leaving behind their children and livestock unattended […]
Statement : October 17 2011 The Ethiopian regime of Meles Zenawei is going to charge Matin Schibbye and Johan Perrson tomorrow in A Kangaroo Court in Addis Ababa on a trumpeted charge of Terrorism. The regime has set up an elaborate program of manufacturing false and concocted ‘evidence’ after their ill-trained solders in Ogaden shot the unarmed Journalists in Ogaden. […]
9 October 2011 The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) strongly condemns the brutal and barbaric terrorist attack against innocent civilians in Mogadishu which resulted in the death of over 100 people, mainly students, this past Tuesday. This attack by the enemies of the Somali people and nation demonstrates the extent to which those forces determined to prevent peace, progress and democracy in Somalia are willing to go. The perpetrators of […]
Press Release October 2, 2011 For the last few weeks, there had been an outbreak of cholera in Korahe region (qabri-daharre) of Ogaden. The Ogaden National liberation Front health officer of the region has reported more than 50 fatalities. The conservative estimate of the people affected by the Cholera is about one thousand and the situation is critical. The health […]
Tuesday, 13 September 2011, UNPO and the Society for Threatened Peoples will co-host an event at the 18th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. This event, titled Oppression in the Ogaden: Human Rights in Ethiopia’s Somali Region, will be held in the Palais des Nations from 11:00 – 13:00. The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and […]
8 September 2011 The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) strongly condemns the charging of Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye with terrorism by the Ethiopian regime on the 7th of September 2011. charge these journalists with terrorism represents a gross miscarriage of justice and as such these charges should be dropped immediately. Charging Mr. Persson and Mr Schibbye […]