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| Africa Horn |
| Admiral of the Desert -- Muhammad Omar Osman and the Ogadeni Rebellion |
| 2010-05-28 |
| By: Andrew McGregor The ceaseless destruction of Somalia by internecine clan warfare, sectarian conflict and foreign intervention continues to garner headlines in the international media; yet across Somalia's border with Ethiopia there is an ongoing conflict involving ethnic Somalis in a remote and inhospitable region that has had a negligible amount of press coverage. The decades old struggle between the Ethiopian government and the ethnic Somalis of Ethiopia's Somali Region (known as Haraghe Province until the administrative reforms of 1995) is one of brutal attacks and retaliations conducted out of sight of foreign reporters, who are officially banned from the region. [1] Though it is best known as the Ogaden conflict, after the ethnic-Somali Ogadeni clan that leads the rebellion, ethnic-Somalis actually fight on both sides of the dispute. Read the story at the link. It is an interesting background piece on Muhammad Omar Osman and the constant unrest in the region of Ethiopia bordering Somalia. |
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