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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1977, the Somalia National Army invaded Ethiopia in an attempt to annex the Somali-inhabited Ogaden region. The invasion could have reached its goal, if only it did not take place in 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 ...

Ethiopia's Somali regional state on Friday signed an agreement to disarm and reintegrate members of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) into the state's security forces and civil service ...

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 ...

(Adds terrorism list request) ADDIS ABABA, May 29 (Reuters) - Ethiopian police have arrested five suspects thought to be behind a blast in the country's volatile Ogaden region that killed 11 ...

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 ...

The Oromo Liberation Army's (OLA) recent "extending of hands in revolutionary solidarity" to the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) sends a chilling message across the Somali region's ...

Ogaden, or the Somali region, is a remote area of Ethiopia ... Today on Africa Daily, Alan gets the thoughts of a former rebel who set up a support group for her fellow female fighters, ...