The Somali region of Ethiopia, known as Ogaden by most people of Somali origin, is once again at the centre of international tension. It is at the heart of a dispute between the Ethiopian government ...

In July 1977. a war between Ethiopia and Somalia broke out over the province of Ogaden. This part of internationally recognized territory of Ethiopia was considered by Somalia to be theirs because ...

The Somali-Ethiopian War is also sometimes called the Ogaden War, named after a region of eastern Ethiopia whose population is ethnically Somali. The events in that war set the stage for the war ...

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But in 1977, Somalia expelled the Soviets as a result of USSR support for Ethiopia in the Ogaden War. Three years later, the U.S. had replaced the Soviets as Somalia’s major power ally.

The Ogaden War, as it became known, lasted into 1978. It devastated the Somali military and laid the groundwork for internecine conflict to boil over into civil war.