Press Release by PAFD, March 10, 2017
In its Press Release of March 08, 2017, the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), one of the key PAFD’s founding members, has stated that, between 05 and 08 March 2017 alone, more than 300 people died of unreported and government concealed Cholera epidemic currently rampaging Ogaden Somali region. Coupled with the ongoing and chronic drought and deliberate neglect of the region, the people are severely affected thus dying at an alarming rate. Therefore, the figure could be much higher. This is not the first time when the regime aimed at inflicting serious damage to the Ogadeni Somali people. It has been understood that, Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) lead Ethiopian regime has in fact committed genocide on several occasions in this region since 1994. Continue reading