Somalia Severs Diplomatic Relations With Libya Over

Ogaden

Facts on File World News Digest

September 4, 1981

Somalia Aug. 25 severed diplomatic relations with Libya and ordered the Libyan embassy staff in Mogadishu to leave Somalia within 48 hours. [See p. 202E3]

The Somali action, taken at an Aug. 24 meeting of the country's Supreme Revolutionary Council, was triggered by what the Somalis called Libyan leader Col. Muammer el-Qaddafi's "conspiracies against the Somali people and for backing the Ethiopian regime against the Muslim peoples in western Somalia [Ogaden], Abbo and Eritrea."

Source: Facts on File World News Digest