Word: ogaden
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...Ogaden rebels fight on against Moscow's Ethiopian allies...
...that broke up the Soviet-Somali alliance could also inhibit the budding military cooperation between Washington and Mogadishu. That issue is Somalia's continued support for the Western Somali Liberation Front (W.S.L.F.), which since the mid-1960s has been fighting a slow-motion guerrilla war to free the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia from the "black colonial regime" in Addis Ababa...
...violates a basic principle of diplomacy on the continent: namely, that national borders, even though drawn arbitrarily by European colonial powers, must remain sacrosanct. In fact, Somalia's protestations of noninvolvement are not quite accurate, as TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White discovered on a trip to the Ogaden area last week. His report...
...wheel-drive Toyota bucked and rattled over a rutted road, past a desolate landscape of brick red clay and wind-sculpted termite hills, it was hard to imagine how anyone could live in this barren wasteland. Even tough acacia trees wither and die in the unceasing glare of the Ogaden's hostile sun. Suddenly the car rumbled to a stop. "Look over there," said the guide, Mohamed Heeban, gesturing toward a clump of thornbushes along the bank of a dried-up stream. "That is Karraro, the city under the trees...
Inside the thicket stood two rows of dasoyils, the dome-shaped folding huts used by wandering Ogaden herdsmen. There were two shops stocked with canned goods, boxes of spaghetti and bolts of cloth, a café where men sat drinking cups of steaming spiced tea laced with sour camel milk, a stall where a cobbler took orders for made-to-measure goatskin sandals. Camels groaned in protest as their owners loaded them up with sacks of rice, flour and sugar; the sounds blended unevenly with the bleat of goats and sheep grazing on the scrubby vegetation of a nearby field...