The arid Somali (or Ogaden) region of Ethiopia, home to some 5 million ethnic Somalis has been isolated from the world since 2005, when the government imposed a ban on all international media and ...

Guns are silent, but war lingers for Ogaden’s former women rebel fighters Ex-rebels from Ethiopia’s Somali region have had a rocky transition to civilian life, even years after the 2018 peace ...

One scene also features several fighters pledging bayah, or allegiance, to Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. Many fighters who have been killed since ISS began in late 2015 were featured in the video. The ...

In 1977, the Somalia National Army invaded Ethiopia in an attempt to annex the Somali-inhabited Ogaden region.

Formed in 1984 amid a resurgence of separatist sentiment in the ethnically Somali Ogaden region on Ethiopia's border with Somalia, ONLF describes itself as 'a national liberation organisation that ...

In July 1977, Somalia launched a war against Ethiopia with the objective of taking control of the Ogaden region. With superior ground forces, they made big advances. But Ethiopians had one strong ...

The Ogaden National Liberation Front has said it’s rethinking its 2018 peace deal with the government. We hear from a former female fighter. Show more “Growing up in Ogaden, I was surrounded ...

The government blamed the strike on the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), separatist rebels who last month raided a Chinese-run oil exploration field in the area, also known as the Somali ...

The fighters have been adopting al-Qaeda tactics at times. The Ogaden National Liberation Front, a Somali rebel group, killed nine Chinese oil workers and 65 Ethiopians at a rig in eastern ...

The Ogaden National Liberation Front, an ethnic-Somali rebel group that seeks self-determination in part of eastern Ethiopia, denied its fighters were surrounded by Somali provincial forces while ...

At the age of 12, I was arrested by government troops and imprisoned along with my whole family.” Ogaden, or the Somali region, is a remote area of Ethiopia – little known by much of the world.