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1 | P a g e THE CASE OF WESTREN SOMALILAND (OGADEN): AN INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PERSPECTIVE Legal and historical document written by Professor Reisman who teaches at Yale Law School. The present essay draws on work he and Professor Myres S. McDougal (Yale Law School) have been engaged in jointly. HORN OF AFRICA JULY-SE PTEMBER THE CASE OF WESTREN SOMALILAND (OGADEN): AN INTERNATIONAL LEGAL PERSPECTIVE W. Michael Reisman Contents 1.Background 3 2.The Boundary Issue and Ethiopian Claims 5 3.Decolonization and the Right of Self-Determination 8 4.Self-determination and Non-Self-Governing Territories 10 5.Conflicts Between International and Regional Law 12 6.Conclusion 13 1. Background Somaliland, as a geographical term, refers to vast areas in the Horn of Africa, inhabited almost exclusively by the Somali people for centuries. Western Somaliland the extensive inland area between the mountain ranges of Ethiopia and the plains of the Somali Republic has been claimed by bot

WHY NOT SPEAK: THE IMPOSING QUESTION OF THE SOMALIS IN THE OGADEN Mahamud Ugas Muhumed (PhD Candidate) July 2005 I. BACKGROUND The Ogaden is a land in the Horn of Africa between Somalia and Ethiopia , which has been in dispute between two unconcerned countries for a long time. History tells us that upon the scramble and partition of Africa in 1884 by the Europeans, the region remained given to Menelik II of Ethiopia during 1891-97, but the territory was totally engulfed in 1954 [1] . In December 1957 Ethiopia and Italy reported to the UN General Assembly that direct negotiations were not successful.  The Italian Government refused to accept an Ethiopian compromise on the provisional administrative line, and an arbitration tribunal of three jurists was appointed in 1958 and failed. The General Assembly then asked the King of Norway to nominate an adviser to assist in resolving the tribunal's terms of reference. Trygyve Lie, the former UN Secret