{"id":272977,"date":"2019-04-13T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=e7bdb6efc6c0d25a6e38c0438ee868de"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:34:20","slug":"ethiopia-signs-a-peace-deal-with-former-ogaden-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/272977","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia signs a peace deal with former Ogaden rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, Ethiopia\u2019s federal government and the <strong>Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)<\/strong> moved through a peace track that brought former rebels home for rehabilitation after years of insurgency and exile politics in the Somali Region.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-268049\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/41st-Ogaden-War-anniversary-celebration-in-Addis-Ababa.jpg?fit=768%2C486&ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia signs a peace deal with former Ogaden rebels\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera and others framed the deal as part of Abiy Ahmed\u2019s wider effort to settle armed contests left over from the EPRDF security state\u2014alongside talks and amnesties elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The ONLF file remains strategic for Horn readers: Somali Region politics, cross-border clan networks, and Addis\u2013Mogadishu\u2013Hargeisa triangles all touch that peace process. Whether deals deliver local security or only elite bargains is the lasting test.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/04\/ethiopia-signs-peace-deal-ogaden-rebels-190413150450692.html\">Al Jazeera<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia signs peace deal with former Ogaden rebels&nbsp;&nbsp;Aljazeera.comFormer rebels belonging to Ethiopia&#8217;s Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) are going through rehabilitation after recently returning to the country from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":268049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/41st-Ogaden-War-anniversary-celebration-in-Addis-Ababa.jpg?fit=960%2C607&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-190R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600550,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272977\/revisions\/600550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}