Word: hargeisa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somalia has paid a heavy price for its support of the rebels. Although it no longer sends its army into the Ogaden to fight alongside the W.S.L.F., Somalia allows the guerrillas to train at a camp near Hargeisa, permits occasional arms shipments from friendly Arab countries to be delivered at its ports, and cares for the liberation front's wounded in government hospitals. It has also provided refuge for some 540,000 displaced Ogadenians, who may become permanent wards of Somalia if the fighting does not stop. "Because of the sheer numbers involved, the only place for these people...