the first lady is politically astute, kudos to her
historically there was great ethiopian peoples migration towards those land.
majority of somali territory is protected by the amhar territory but awash valley has always been a migration and imperialism prone, I finally figured out where the qaldan accent comes from
there is no doubt that awdal and wagooyi galbeed are only second to dirir daba as territories which are highly ethiopianised.
if am correct a old snet poster showed that as late as 1700 there were Orthodox Tewahedo Churches near sheekh and bulo xaar with priest who were bilingual(they all had islamic sounding names like isa, mariam, daud,Mikhail etc and they had titles like sheik
its no secret that ethiopians controlled those lands for centuries and it was only under ahmed gurey and emir nuur that the tide was turned on habasha, alongside the great oromo migration which academic dont fully understand but whos impact clearly evedent everywhere in northern horn

