Ethiopia civil conflict 2020 to present

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Interesting. Ethiopia has been involved in the Sudan war and linked to the UAE and RsF.

Ethiopia accuses Eritrea, Sudan of backing Tigray rebels amid clashes

Ethiopia’s army chief accused Eritrea and Sudan on Sunday of backing armed groups fighting federal troops, as clashes with Tigrayan rebels intensified. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front said it was…

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Interesting. Ethiopia has been involved in the Sudan war and linked to the UAE and RsF.

Ethiopia accuses Eritrea, Sudan of backing Tigray rebels amid clashes

Ethiopia’s army chief accused Eritrea and Sudan on Sunday of backing armed groups fighting federal troops, as clashes with Tigrayan rebels intensified. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front said it was…

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This might break out into africa world war part 2. I can see somalia and somaliland getting dragged into this next.

Second Congo War - Wikipedia

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The Second Congo War, also known as Africa's World War, was a massive continental conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that lasted from August 1998 to July 2003. [1, 2, 3]

Overview and Causes

• • Start Date: August 2, 1998, following the First Congo War. [1, 2, 3]
  • Trigger: Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila turned against Rwanda and Uganda, his former allies who helped him take power, and ordered their military forces to leave the country. [1, 2]
  • Resource Wealth: The region's rich deposits of gold, diamonds, and coltan heavily fueled the conflict, with foreign armies and militias fighting to control lucrative mining areas. [1]

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Its probably time for the muslim somalis of ogaden to start their separatists war.

The Ogaden War was a conventional military conflict fought between Somalia and Ethiopia from July 1977 to March 1978 over control of the disputed Ogaden region. [1]

Overview and Causes

• • The Conflict: Somalia invaded Ethiopia in July 1977 to annex the Ogaden region, which was populated predominantly by ethnic Somalis, supporting the Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF). [1, 2, 3, 4]
  • Historical Roots: The dispute originated from colonial-era border delineations by Britain, Italy, and Ethiopia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that divided traditional nomadic Somali grazing lands. Annexing Ogaden was part of Somalia's long-term irredentist goal to create a "Greater Somalia". [1, 2, 3, 4]

Cold War Dynamics and Shift in Alliances

• • Initial Somali Success: Backed by the Soviet Union with arms and training, the Somali National Army and WSLF quickly captured large portions of the desert region. [1, 2, 3]
  • The Soviet and Cuban Intervention: The Soviet Union shifted its allegiance to Ethiopia's new Marxist Derg regime. Moscow supplied massive amounts of advanced military equipment and deployed roughly 15,000 Cuban combat troops to aid Ethiopia. [1, 2]

Outcome and Aftermath

• • Somali Defeat: Bolstered by Soviet logistics and Cuban troops, Ethiopian forces launched a decisive counteroffensive, forcing surviving Somali troops to retreat by March 1978. [1]
  • Long-Term Impact: The defeat ruined Somalia's economy, triggered a massive refugee crisis, and destabilized Siad Barre's government, laying groundwork for the eventual collapse of the Somali state in 1991. For background context, read more via History State Gov. [1, 2, 3]

 

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A setback for Ethiopian rebels.