The Ogaden is a hot and unforgiving landscape populated almost entirely by ethnically Somali pastoralists; it takes up a large swath of the Somali region of eastern Ethiopia.

The Ethiopian government recently shelved plans to pipe natural gas from the Ogaden Basin to Djibouti because of financial ...

In July 1977. a war between Ethiopia and Somalia broke out over the province of Ogaden. This part of internationally recognized territory of Ethiopia was considered by Somalia to be theirs because of ...

Until recently, Jail Ogaden in Ethiopia’s eastern Somali Region housed thousands of prisoners, many of them illegally arrested government critics and opposition figures who had been detained for ...

Regions where Genocide Watch (GW) consider “Ethiopia to have already reached Stage 7 (of 8), genocide massacres,” arguably the worst atrocities are taking place within the Ogaden, where GW say ...

(Recasts, adds government, human rights group) By Tseyaye Tadesse ADDIS ABABA, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Ethiopia said on Wednesday it had killed more than 500 rebels and captured 170 in the past two ...

We filmed the meetings and put together a short documentary, Ogaden: Ethiopia’s Hidden Shame. Most people have never heard of the region and know nothing of what is happening there.

Ethiopia has rejected a claim by a rebel group that it has taken control of a gas field in the country's Ogaden region being explored by Malaysian state oil company Petronas.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian rebels said Thursday they killed 25 soldiers protecting a Chinese oil exploration company called PetroTrans. It was not possible to verify the claims made by ...