Rebels in Eastern Ethiopia to Seek Self-Determination Vote

[Suldaanka]

Rebels in Eastern Ethiopia to Seek Self-Determination Vote

A rebel group in Ethiopia said it will demand a referendum on self-determination for the country’s troubled, gas-rich Somali region during landmark peace talks with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government.

The plan by the Ogaden National Liberation Front, which has staged a low-level insurgency in Ethiopia’s east for more than three decades, comes as Abiy invites once-banned opponents to take part in elections. The demands may aggravate a scramble for the region’s energy resources, including natural gas reserves the government estimates will eventually earn it $7 billion a year.

At stake are an estimated 8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the Ogaden Basin, where exports are due to begin 2021 via a pipeline to neighboring Djibouti. A unit of China Poly Group Corp. has also started testing oil deposits.

“We want to achieve self-determination recognized by international law under the current Ethiopian constitution,” Ahmed Yassin Abdi, the ONLF’s foreign secretary, said by phone from the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. “We want our people to have a right to decide.” He said his group has no preconditions for the talks. The region’s new president expressed support for greater autonomy.

Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous country after Nigeria, is a federation designed to give autonomy to its dozens of ethnic groups. The ONLF has long maintained that the Somali regional state, which it calls the Ogaden and borders war-torn Somalia, hasn’t been properly represented by the federal government.

Ethiopia’s constitution enshrines the rights of people with “a large measure” of common culture, customs, language, identity and “psychological makeup” in an “identifiable, predominantly contiguous territory” to seek self-determination and even establish their own states.

 

[Suldaanka]

ONLF is a spent force. Only exists in name only.

With Eritrea base closed. ONLF is even more at weaker position to negotiate hard.

 

[Duufaan]

Good things happen to good people. Very good point to start to negotiate. Ethiopia, we knew is gone and what will happen next is anyone guessing game.

[Che -Guevara]

Let's  see who has a better chance of gaining international recognition, secessionists or Somali Galbeed

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Dhagaxbuur  iyo qabridhahare labba qawsaar oo qawaananta wax ugu sheegi jirnay. Sultan diiriye  iyo Sultan nur dhagocun iyo affar reer cigaal from xarsin. Used to wipe the flour with them from 1982 1983. Afweyne hebel massale  emergency shaqeynweyday meyday meyday. Abdulqadir koosaar affaraad iyo maxammad calisicidun ilaahow ku naxariiso

Hebel ileey iyo hebel cawar ishanu ka ridi jirnay waxan doobilayaashi gashaanbuur

[Che -Guevara]

Oodweyne,

I won't rub it on your face but it is on. And I will graciously eat my humble pie.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Somalia still burning since 1991 hiep  hiep hoeray. Bunch incompetent pirate irhaabist and furniture furaash stealers 

Ma waxaasa dowlad ah bantugu ilaaliyo

[Barwaaqo]

1 hour ago, Xaaji Xunjuf said:

Dhagaxbuur  iyo qabridhahare labba qawsaar oo qawaananta wax ugu sheegi jirnay. Sultan diiriye  iyo Sultan nur dhagocun iyo affar reer cigaal from xarsin. Used to wipe the flour with them from 1982 1983. Afweyne hebel massale  emergency shaqeynweyday meyday meyday. Abdulqadir koosaar affaraad iyo maxammad calisicidun ilaahow ku naxariiso

Hebel ileey iyo hebel cawar ishanu ka ridi jirnay waxan doobilayaashi gashaanbuur

Alla haw naxariisto mowtidda iyo waalidiinta dhimatay. Faracii  Suldaan Diiriye ayaan ka soo jeedaa dhinaca tafiirta hablihiisi.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Ma suldaan diiriyihi burco eh  ila danood dega. Mise hablahagaroodi eh dhamacda daud

[Barwaaqo]

Dhamacda Daa’uud. 

[Che -Guevara]

21 minutes ago, Xaaji Xunjuf said:

Somalia still burning since 1991 hiep  hiep hoeray. Bunch incompetent pirate irhaabist and furniture furaash stealers 

Ma waxaasa dowlad ah bantugu ilaaliyo

Forget to take prescription drugs today?

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Runtu way xanuun kulushahay

[Che -Guevara]

2 minutes ago, Xaaji Xunjuf said:

Runtu way xanuun kulushahay

Says the man who is spraying verbal-diarrhea projectiles everywhere on SOL.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Sheeko baaralay adeer Somalia is failed state in 2018 as it was in 1990. Xaqiiqada indhaha haka qarsan.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

The koonfurians tallo maad qadatan. Calan blue shaqeynwaa. African shaqeynwa. Hebbel keith shaqeynwa.

Now you can be angry at Somalilanders but it's you who can't govern not me.

But fix your house. Runta caloosha usi daa caloosha idin taagan.