{"id":278695,"date":"2019-06-11T14:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T18:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiQmh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8xMS9rYXJhbWFyYS13YXItaGVyby1hbGktYmVya2Utc3BlYWtzL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:31:29","slug":"karamara-war-hero-ali-berke-recounted-ethiopias-fight-against-somalias-1977-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278695","title":{"rendered":"Karamara war hero Ali Berke recounted Ethiopia\u2019s fight against Somalia\u2019s 1977 invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 11 June 2019 Borkena posted a video feature in which Ali Berke, described as a leading Ethiopian hero of the war against Somalia\u2019s 1977 invasion around the Karamara front, recounted his wartime story and spoke about his love for Ethiopia.<\/p>\n\"Karamara\n

The short Borkena note embedded an Andaafta Media interview and presented Berke\u2019s testimony as living military history from the Ogaden War generation rather than as a full documentary transcript.<\/p>\n

Kept as military history archive, the Borkena video post dates a public retelling of the Karamara campaign by one of its Ethiopian veterans in June 2019.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong> Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Karamara war hero Ali Berke fondly recounts his past  borkena.comAli Berke was Ethiopia’s leading hero during Somalia’s invasion of Ethiopia. He recounts his story in the video below. Watch video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":280180,"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-278695","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\/06\/Gen.-Asaminew-Tsige-laid-to-rest-in-Lalibela-Addis-Ababa-Baladera-Council-members-arrested.jpg?fit=960%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1av5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278695","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=278695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755135,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278695\/revisions\/755135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}