Ogaden Oil and Gas: An Open Forum
Why not speak: The Imposing Question of Somalis in the Ogaden.
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...
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