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 ...

The Ethiopian government considers the ONLF a terrorist organization, but the United States and United Nations do not. More Africa Stories . US to expel South Africa ambassador as relations ...

Former rebel fighters with the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), which has battled for decades against the government for an independent state for ethnic Somalis in Eastern Ethiopia, are ...

Any hopes for an imminent end to conflict in Ethiopia’s Somali region were dashed earlier this month when talks between the government and the separatist Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF ...

Ethiopia’s eastern Somali region, known as Region 5 or the Ogaden, is the site of a long-running, low-intensity armed conflict between the Ethiopian government and the ONLF.

At a press briefing he held today at Hilton hotel in Addis Abeba, Abdirahman Mahdi Madey, chairman of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) said ONLF wants to see Ethiopia's upcoming general ...

(Recasts with ONLF threat, adds quote) By Tsegaye Tadesse ADDIS ABABA, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) rebels said they killed 140 government soldiers in a ...

The Horn of Africa has been marked by struggle for decades. Behind some of the violence, including an April 2007 attack on a Chinese oil rig in Ethiopia, is the Ogaden National Liberation Front ...

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 ...

Ethiopian forces have killed 123 separatist rebels in the eastern region of the country, a senior Ethiopian official has told the BBC.

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 ...

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 ...