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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says his administration has been keeping a tight lid on Ethiopia’s natural gas production prospects ...
‎However, reports indicate that Ethiopia’s ambitions for natural gas production and LNG exports have faced repeated setbacks.
In a major policy reversal, the Government of Ethiopia has officially scrapped its long-standing plan to extract and export natural gas from the resource-rich Ogaden Basin in the Somali Regional State ...
The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) has denounced a meeting that took place in Jigjiga, the capital of Somali region, as "illegitimate and politically orchestrated," accusing the ruling ...
Ogaden’s recent history is also clouded by conflict that has killed thousands. Ceded to Ethiopia by the British in 1954, Ogaden has twice been fought over with Somalia, which claims the region ...
Ethiopia does that to people. ... Just how naive I was in 2005 did not become clear, however, until this summer, when I began reporting on the region of Ethiopia known as the Ogaden.
Regions where Genocide Watch (GW) consider “Ethiopia to have already reached Stage 7 (of 8), genocide massacres,” arguably the worst atrocities are taking place within the Ogaden, where GW say ...
We filmed the meetings and put together a short documentary, Ogaden: Ethiopia’s Hidden Shame. Most people have never heard of the region and know nothing of what is happening there.
Ethiopia’s Human Rights Commission has inspected Jail Ogaden on many occasions since 2011, but reports of those visits are not publicly available, and it is not clear what actions, if any, were ...
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 ...