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ETHIOPIA: Deal with Breakaway ONLF Faction

ETHIOPIA: Deal with Breakaway ONLF Faction The main body of the Ogaden group has vowed to continue fighting. Ethiopia signed a peace deal on October 12th with a breakaway faction of the Ogaden National Liberation Front rebels who have waged a 25‐year insurgency to gain autonomy for their oil‐rich region. Federal Affairs Minister Shiferaw Teklemariam and the chairman of the ONLF faction’s supreme council, Salahdin Abdurahman Maow , inked the deal, which was dismissed by the group’s main body which has vowed to continue fighting. “The conviction of both sides has brought about a historical reconciliation in the region,” Shiferaw said. On his part, Salahdin said: “We have come to understand the destructive nature of war and war is not the only solution to our problems.” State officials said the government would provide amnesty to the group’s members and grant the region the right to self‐determination up to independence. However, the spokesman of the ONLF group still waging war dismissed the breakaway rebels as “irrelevant”. “They don’t represent anybody and it will not change anything in the Ogaden. The fighting will continue,” Abderahmane Mahadi told AFP by phone from Britain . “They are just individuals who want to get constituencies and have power; of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2010
ISSN
0001-9844
eISSN
1467-825X
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-825X.2010.03527.x
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Abstract

The main body of the Ogaden group has vowed to continue fighting. Ethiopia signed a peace deal on October 12th with a breakaway faction of the Ogaden National Liberation Front rebels who have waged a 25‐year insurgency to gain autonomy for their oil‐rich region. Federal Affairs Minister Shiferaw Teklemariam and the chairman of the ONLF faction’s supreme council, Salahdin Abdurahman Maow , inked the deal, which was dismissed by the group’s main body which has vowed to continue fighting. “The conviction of both sides has brought about a historical reconciliation in the region,” Shiferaw said. On his part, Salahdin said: “We have come to understand the destructive nature of war and war is not the only solution to our problems.” State officials said the government would provide amnesty to the group’s members and grant the region the right to self‐determination up to independence. However, the spokesman of the ONLF group still waging war dismissed the breakaway rebels as “irrelevant”. “They don’t represent anybody and it will not change anything in the Ogaden. The fighting will continue,” Abderahmane Mahadi told AFP by phone from Britain . “They are just individuals who want to get constituencies and have power; of

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural SeriesWiley

Published: Nov 1, 2010

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