Ethiopia signs deal with rebels
Oct 13th, 2010 by admin
The Ethiopian government has signed a peace deal with a rebel faction in the disputed Ogaden region. A breakaway faction of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) rebels have been waging a separatist war in the oil-rich and mainly ethnic Somali province for the past two decades. Ethiopian government officials said on Tuesday that rebels would get immunity from prosecution and that Ogaden would be granted the right to self determination up to independence, according to news agency AFP. But the ONLF’s main body, run by former Somali navy chief Admiral Mohamed Omar Osman, dismissed the peace deal and vowed to continue fighting.