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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 […]

 
 

TPLF Spreads Lies in Somalilandpress in order to Defame ONLF

TPLF Spreads Lies in Somalilandpress in order to Defame ONLF

ONLF-Editorial July 15, 2015 The Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) agent Provocateurs inserted an article into Somaliland Press titled “UNPO elects Leader of Ogaden militia as VP”. TPLF is the ultra-nationalist sectarian party that rules and controls Ethiopia, through surrogate EPRDF coalition parties. A party that just won 100% of the votes and started assassinating opposition members just few days […]

 
 

UNPO XII General Assembly Adopts Ogaden Resolution

UNPO XII General Assembly Adopts Ogaden Resolution

July 14, 2015 Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) General Assembly July 4, 2015 Brussels, Belgium On 3 July 2015, representatives of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) presented their resolution to UNPO’s XII General Assembly, condemning the punishment of the civilian population in Ogaden by the Ethiopian government, expressing the desire of initiating peace talks between the Ethiopian government […]

 
 

XI UNPO GA Adopts General Resolution and Elects New Presidency

XI UNPO GA Adopts General Resolution and Elects New Presidency

XII Session of the UNPO General Assembly General Resolution On the occasion of the XII Session of the UNPO General Assembly, the following general resolution was adopted on 4 July 20l5 in Brussels, Belgium: Preamble Expressing its solidarity with UNPO Members and other victims of oppression, violence and discrimination who are struggling to gain respect for their human rights and […]

 
 

Ethiopian Regime Destruction of Somalia communities along the Somali Border

Ethiopian Regime Destruction of Somalia communities along the Somali Border

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 […]

 
 

Ogaden National Liberation Front, OROMO Liberation Front and Sidama Liberation Front Alliance for Peace, Democracy and the right of Choice

Ogaden National Liberation Front, OROMO Liberation Front and Sidama Liberation Front Alliance for Peace, Democracy and the right of Choice

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

Exporting and Using Ogaden Gas Will Not Happen

  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 […]

 
 

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 […]

 
 

ONLF Liberation Army did not take part in the fight between Al-Shabab and Ethiopia on the Somali Border

ONLF Liberation Army did not take part in the fight between Al-Shabab and Ethiopia on the Somali Border

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 […]

 
 

O.N.L.F Condemns Detention of Swedish Journalists by Ethiopia with the Assistance of the Puntland Authorities

O.N.L.F Condemns Detention of Swedish Journalists by Ethiopia with the Assistance of the Puntland Authorities

Press Release – 3 July 2011 ONLF have lost contact with two Swedish Photojournalists on their way to Ogaden from Puntland since July 1, 2011 and a pro-Ethiopian tabloid in Somali is reporting that The Ethiopian army arrested the two journalists, publishing their names and claiming that the Army killed some of their guides. ONLF also received a tip from […]