Opinion: New path to insurgency looms over Ethiopia's Somali region amid unmet peace deal promises with ONLF

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The article discusses the rising tensions in Ethiopia's Somali region, where the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), a group that has shifted from being an armed insurgency to a political party, is warning of a possible return to violence due to unmet promises from a 2018 peace agreement with the federal government. The ONLF's chairman, Abdirahman Sheikh Mahdi, has expressed dissatisfaction with the government's failure to honor the agreement, which was supposed to grant the group political autonomy and address resource disputes.


In October 2018, the government of Ethiopia and the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) signed the Asmara Peace Deal, a historic occasion marking the end of over 30 years of armed conflict in the Somali Regional Stat


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