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 ...

JIGJIGA, (WDN) — Veteran nationalist and former political prisoner Abdikarim Muse Qalbi-Dhagax has been elected as the new chairman of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), following internal ...

The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) has reported that two of its senior members in the Nogob Zone, Somali Regional State, have been held "incommunicado" for over three weeks, alleging they ...

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 ONLF was founded in 1984. It is fighting for independence from Ethiopia, complaining of discrimination by the central government against the region's Somali-speaking nomads. Ogaden is the local ...

While it is most likely true that AIAI in the 1990s had a cooperative relationship with the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), an ethnic Somali insurgent group that fought inside Ethiopia’s ...

Mogadishu now says Ethiopia’s Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), labelled as a terrorist group since 2017, is no longer seen as such, in a move likely to improve ties between Ethiopia’s ...

With three main opposition parties – the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice Party (Ezema) and the Freedom and Equality Party (NEPA) – as well as ...

When I asked the ONLF leader about ‘region 5’, he became irritated and said: “My home is not a number!” I thought he was just being nationalistic as ONLF members often refer to the Somali inhabited ...