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Ethiopia–Somalia border
International border / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ethiopia–Somalia border stretches 1,500 kilometers. After the Berlin Conference had taken place in the 19th century, Britain, Italy, and France contributed significantly to shaping the borders of modern-day Somalia, on behalf of their colonies of British, Italian and French Somaliland. The Somali people were thus under British, Italian and French rule. During World War II, Britain gained control of the Ogaden and Haud territories and ceded them to Ethiopia in 1954, but not delimited beyond the provisional line (sometimes labeled on maps as the Provisional Administrative Line).[1] Since 1960 independence, the border suffered serious skirmish involving both countries soldiers. From 1977 to 1978, Ethiopia and Somalia fought Ogaden War led by Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam and General Siad Barre respectively. The EPRDF government demarcated the border of Ogaden into Somali Region. Somalia is located at the base of Ethiopia's protrude southeast region; from South, it is bounded by Wabi Shebelle and Genale Valley.[1]
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