Yves-Marie Stranger still remembers the stunned look on the faces of his guests. They had ridden horses in Mongolia, trekked ...

A new chapter is unfolding in Africa’s energy landscape as the continent welcomes Ethiopia into its community of ...

Eight-month siege The ONLF, founded in 1984, is fighting for independence for a large part of Ethiopia's Somali region, known as the Ogaden. Most of the group's members are part of the large, mostly ...

Unfinished business The region's recent history is clouded by conflict. Ceded to Ethiopia by the British in 1954, it has twice since been fought over by Ethiopia and Somalia, which - under the ...

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 ...

History is a social sciences subject. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s diplomatic lawfare to protect the sovereignty of the Federal Republic of Somalia underscores the truth of the well-known dictum: ...

The Somali-Ethiopian War is also sometimes called the Ogaden War, named after a region of eastern Ethiopia whose population is ethnically Somali. The events in that war set the stage for the war ...

The ensuing war would become one of the defining events in recent East African history. Hear from General Mohamed Nur Galal, one of the architects of the Somali invasion.

This discovery follows the August 2022 announcement of 7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves in the Ogaden region. The reserves were verified by the consultancy firm Netherland, Swell & ...

The late 19th century period remains a consequential period in Africa’s history. The book highlights the negative consequences of the 1897 Rodd Treaty between Britain and Ethiopia whereby, the Ogaden ...

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 ...

By Faisal A. Roble Introduction About 47 years ago, the Somali National Army and the Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF) jointly fought against Ethiopia’s Derg forces over the Ogaden region. As ...