Breaking NEWS : Ethiopia and Ogaden Peace Talk Resumed Today in Nairobi, Kenya

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Breaking NEWS : Ethiopia and Ogaden Peace Talk Resumed Today in Nairobi, Kenya

Ethiopian Minister of Defense Siraj Fegassa and Ethiopia's National Intelligence Chief, getachew Assefa met with Abdirahman Mahdi, head of Foreign Relations of the ONLF and Mohamed Abdi Yasin, Secretary of the ONLF. The two sides agreed most th

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Ethiopian Minister of Defense Siraj Fegassa and Ethiopia's National Intelligence Chief, getachew Assefa met with Abdirahman Mahdi, head of Foreign Relations of the ONLF and Mohamed Abdi Yasin, Secretary of the ONLF. The two sides agreed most the principles of the dialogue.

The Ogaden National Liberation Front ONLF and Ethiopia government have resumed in Nairobi, Kenya today, Ogaden News Agency reported.

International Community is pressuring both of them to continue the talks in part of solving decades of conflict in the Ogaden.

Kenya-brokered peace talks between ONLF and Ethiopia stalled in October 17, 2012 following ONLF's refusal to accept a pre-condition imposed by Ethiopian negotiation team, which was a violation to initial agreement.

The Ogaden conflict is regarded one of the longest wars in the history of Africa. More than 500, 000 people have died, and more than a million have fled from the region.There are 100,000 Ogaden refugees in Kenya and 3,000 in Yemen, of whom 2,500 are registered with UNHCR in Sanaa. Around 100 families from Ogaden live in Al-Kharez Refugee camp in the South of Yemen, registered with UN as refugees from Somalia.

Human rights Watch has accused the Ethiopian government of systematically cracking down on media ahead of the may 2015 election.

ONLF was founded in 1984, and it has been engaging army struggle with the Ethiopian troops stationed in Ogaden since 1994, after the Ethiopian government cracked down its members following after the first ever legitimate Ogaden Parliament overwhelmingly voted yes for self-determination.

Ogaden borders Djibouti,Oromia, Kenya and Somalia . The people are predominantly ethnic Somali and Muslim. The region was Italian and English-colony but in 1954, the English handed over to Ethiopia.

Ahmed Abdi is a freelance journalist and has produced an enormous series of publications across dozens of local, regional and international news portals. He can be reached at [email protected]

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