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General Abraha Wolde, the commander of the Ethiopian army’s Southern Division based in Harar, who singlehandedly rules the Ogaden with iron-fist, has lately been busy organizing a conference in Jigjiga. This conference, which comes in the wake of the recently failed peace talks between the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and the Ethiopian regime held in Kenya, is the Ethiopian […]
Abdullahi Hussien, the whistle-blower who defected from the Ethiopian appointed administration in Ogaden and exposed the rampant human rights abuses taking place in the region, attended an influential human rights conference which was held in the city of Gothenburg in Sweden. The annual conference entitled ‘Human Rights Days’ is organized by the Swedish Forum for Human Rights and held in the city of Gothenburg […]
Dear Editor, ONLF views positively your magazine’s interest in Ogaden, a forgotten part of the world. Having said that it is important to point out some distortions in your article regarding relations of ONLF with its neighbours and the nature of its struggle. First of all ONLF has never had any links whatsoever and does not intend to establish one […]
Press Release November 7, 2012 The Ogaden National Liberation Front Congratulates President Barak Obama The Ogaden National Liberation Front on behalf of the Ogaden congratulates President Barak Obama and the American people on wining the second term of the presidency of the United States of America. The Unites States of America is a strategic key player in the world and ONLF hopes that the […]
After walking out of the recent peace conference with the ONLF, the Ethiopian delegation released a statement spelling out the reason they left the conference via their embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. “The peace talks failed after the ONLF group refused to accept and respect the constitution of Ethiopia and work within the constitutional framework,” the statement said. On its part, […]
We’re witnessing lately the formation of sub-regional unions and the coming together of nations who share adjacent geographic locations, interests and common destiny. These unions are necessitated, among other things, by their mutual inter-connection and desire to survive collectively in this rapidly changing globalized world, and to compete internationally. It has been established that no nation can participate and […]
Legal and historical document written by Professor Reisman( mireisman ) who teaches at Yale Law School. The present essay draws on work he and Professor Myres S. McDougal (Yale Law School) have been engaged in jointly. Excerpt – In 1884, the British attempted to delimit the inland boundaries of the Somali protectorate with Italy, which purported to have a protectorate over […]
ONLF Foreign Secretary, HE Abdirahman Sheekh Mahdi ‘Maadey’, speaks to the media in Nairobi, Kenya and explains how the peace talks between Ethiopia and ONLF ‘stalled’: ONA.
Editor’s Note: The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) had designed October 16, 1976 as World Food Day. This event is commemorated every year around the world with the focus being, according to FOA, “to raises awareness and understanding of approaches to ending hunger.” Accordingly, every year a theme is chosen to mark this event and this year’s theme […]
October 17, 2012 The second round of peace talks between the Ogaden National Liberation Front and the Ethiopian government mediated by Kenya was held in Nairobi between 15 to 17 October 2012. Abdirahman Mahdi, ONLF Foreign Bureau Secretary, led the ONLF delegation. The Ethiopian delegation was led by the Defense Minister Seraj Fegesa. The Kenyan government mediation team was […]
