Lately, there has been a concerted effort on the part of the Woyane regime in Addis Ababa to initiate a propaganda war in the Diaspora. The main message of this propaganda is that the regime has finally accepted that the solution to the Ogaden conflict is through a negotiated solution; and that the regime has signed ‘peace treaties’ with an Al Qaeda affiliated group known as Al Itihad Al Islam, but which has changed its name to the United Western Somali Liberation Front (UWSLF) and a one man group that purports to represent the ‘Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF).’

We, the Ogaden Editorial Board (OEB) could not agree more that the Ogaden conflict can only be resolved through a negotiated settlement. However, such settlement can not come from a one dimensional process where the Woyane is the judge, the jury and the executioner as we see in this propaganda. Also such a negotiated settlement must come from the genuine stakeholders and the party, for example that represents the will of the Ogaden citizenry. It can not come from Woyane actors, failed religious fanatics in search of a safe landing spot and or from a man with neither an army neither a following nor a standing within the Ogaden Somali community.