The Federal government of Somalia should officially gift the Ogaden territory to the Ethiopian regime

[lone]

Somalia is recovering today due to the aid the Transitional Federal government got from the highly trained Ethiopian armed forces. The moment they entered the country, the entire destiny of the whole nation was rewritten. It's only due to the sacrifice of the Ethiopian armed forces are we able to see a forming federal government in Somalia today. I hereby call on the the current head of state and prime minister to relinquish all claims to the Ogaden and deliver an official declaration to Addis Ababa immediately.

"Since Ethiopian armed forces entered Mogadishu in December 2006, Somalia has suffered an increasingly brutal conflict that has devastated the country and laid waste to its capital. Lawlessness and violence have plagued Somalia since the collapse of its last central government in 1991. But the magnitude of the crisis facing the country today dwarfs everything else Somalis have endured throughout the last 10 years.[2]

Ethiopia intervened in Somalia to oust a coalition of shari'a (Islamic law) courts known as the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), which had taken control of Mogadishu in mid-2006. Ethiopia-along with the United States-saw in the ICU a threat that could turn Somalia into a safe haven for al Qaeda and for rebel groups fighting against the Ethiopian government in its own Somali Region.[3] At the time, the ICU looked powerful enough to sweep away Somalia's moribund Transitional Federal Government (TFG). But that changed overnight with Ethiopia's decision to intervene.[4]

Until 2006 the TFG had not managed to enter the Somali capital or establish a physical presence anywhere outside the towns of Baidoa and Jowhar. Plagued with factional divisions, the TFG provided nothing in the way of basic services to Somali citizens and enjoyed little material support from a skeptical international community. But in December 2006 Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) forces acting at the invitation of the TFG quickly and decisively routed ICU militias, bringing the TFG to Mogadishu on their coattails. The TFG extended its administration to the capital, and the ENDF remained in Somalia to provide the military support it needed to survive.

Ethiopia and Somalia have a long history of bitter conflict and in 1977 the two countries fought a full-scale war when Somalia attempted to annex what is now Ethiopia's eastern Somali region. Ethiopia has legitimate security interests in Somalia.[5] But for many Somalis, the presence of ENDF forces in Mogadishu was an intolerable development, and tensions built rapidly among the local population.[6]

Within a week of the fall of Mogadishu, the first insurgent attacks against the TFG and ENDF began. In the early months of 2007, insurgent fighters including clan militias and former ICU forces assassinated TFG officials and staged rocket and mortar attacks against TFG and Ethiopian bases, police stations, and other installations. In March 2007, just three months after entering the capital, Ethiopian forces carried out their first major offensive against insurgent strongholds in northern Mogadishu. The indiscriminate ENDF rocket, mortar, and artillery bombardments that accompanied the operation devastated entire city blocks, killed hundreds of civilians, and caused tens of thousands to flee the city.[7]

In the two years since Ethiopian forces entered Mogadishu, Somalia has spiraled ever-deeper into bloody and unrestrained fighting. All sides have pursued military strategies with little or no concern for the civilians living in their urban battlefields. Insurgent fighters quickly adopted hit-and-run tactics that have remained a defining feature of the conflict, staging ambushes or mortar attacks and then fading back into the cover of the civilian population. Ethiopian and TFG forces developed patterns of responding to those attacks that have since become part of the day-to-day reality of life in Mogadishu-reacting to indiscriminate mortar attacks in kind, with devastating barrages of rocket, mortar, and artillery fire across populated neighborhoods. ENDF and TFG forces began sealing off sections of entire neighborhoods to conduct often-violent house-to-house searches for insurgent fighters and weaponry. The brunt of all this fighting has been borne not by the warring parties but by the hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped between them."

[theyuusuf143]

Kaasina wuxu ahaa akhriste kaloo mareexaana oo aad u massyrsan. Isagoo ay cadhadii ka tustay in Somalia ogadenia ku wareejiso Ethiopia . Jaalle dhulka 77 baa laynaga qaaday , 88 kiina afwayne baa ka tanaasulay Kadib markii SNM nafta u keentay, taaas oo sabab tay inay ogaden kuna afwayne kasoo horjeestan.

[mahoka]

Ogadenia, K5, Somali region or what ever you wanna call it is already owned and controlled by Ethiopia. You can’t give a person what they already have lol.


Maybe give them bosaso or kismayo port instead as they need sea access

[Khalid Ali]

Siyad barre gave kilinka to mengistu in 1988
There is no govt in Somalia

[lone]

Kaasina wuxu ahaa akhriste kaloo mareexaana oo aad u massyrsan. Isagoo ay cadhadii ka tustay in Somalia ogadenia ku wareejiso Ethiopia . Jaalle dhulka 77 baa laynaga qaaday , 88 kiina afwayne baa ka tanaasulay Kadib markii SNM nafta u keentay, taaas oo sabab tay inay ogaden kuna afwayne kasoo horjeestan.

Blackie will be assassinated within a year.