I agree Django and Zidane.
Yusuf,
Nice try but you don't understand this one.
Afar is mere 4 million. Issa and Afar drama is like the Ceel Afweyn one.
The Galla are over 40 impoverished farmers who are running out off land and means of making a living.
They see your land as a way out.
While you see Ogaden and likes of OAF only sees Idoor, they see no difference between you.
Afar is no threat. They have plenty of land, and certainly they not migrating to your lands in the hundreds of thousands.
Besides Galla come with all kinds of social ills a d diseases.
And that's only one example.
It's also clear the Federal will block any Liyu entry into the towns in question. Definitely, needs dialogue and political resolution rather than a military one. If Afar leaders and their paramilitary are fuelling the conflict than they must join Abdi Iley in his cell.
UPDATED NEWS: SOMALI REGION UNILATERALLY WITHDRAWS FROM 2014 AGREEMENT TRANSFERING THREE KEBELES TO AFAR REGION, BEEFS UP SECURITY
Hayalnesh Gezahegn
Addis Abeba, May 04/2019 – In an extraordinary meeting it held on May 03 in Jigjiga city, the cabinet of Somali Regional State unilaterally withdrew from a 2014 agreement transfering three twons to Afar regional state and nullified the agreement.
It also said it was bolstering “the security and the stability of border areas without crossing the Somali Administrative border.” However, it is not clear if Somali region security forces have moved into the three Kebeles. Addis Standard has requested for clarifications and is waiting for official response.
According to a federal security official, who spoke with Addis Standard on conditions of anonymity, “the three towns are already in the hands of the Federal Military. Afar Liyu Police has been withdrawn after clashes with local Population about three months’s ago. [The Somali regional state forces] will not move into the three towns.”
In a resolution the Somali regional state Cabinet issued late last night the regional state’s cabinet also said: “the regional cabinet has unanimously agreed that the illegal agreement that has transferred the three towns of Garba-Issa, Undufo and Adeytu to the Afar Regional State is an agreement that has no base under the federal constitution while at the same time lacking the will of the same people impacted by the decisions under consideration coupled with a dangerous set of coercion tactics and bad faith as engineered by contrabandists under the cover of Afar Regional state.”
The 2014 agreement three Kebelles which were previously under Somali regional state to Afar regional state. They are: Candhayto, Candhufto & Garbo-Ciise.
The decision by the cabinet came in the immediate wake of reported killings of eleven Somali pastoralists by what witnesses said were members of the Afar regional state special forces. An accusation confirmed by Somali region deputy president Mustafa Omer.
The killings happened deep inside Sitti zone of Somali region not in the disputed three towns, prompting the Somali regional state to deploy its forces to the border areas affected by the conflict with “strict instructions that our forces do not cross into Afar Region territories but protect Somali civilians in the border areas.” Mohamed Olad, communication advisor of President Mustefa Omer told Addis Standard. “We seek a peaceful resolution to the unconstitutional transfer of the three towns (fully inhabited by Somalis who do not want to be under Afar Region) — an illegal, immoral and illogical decision imposed on Somalis by contrabandists who wanted to sow discord between the brotherly Somali and Afar People.”