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The evil that people design on others usually comes back to bite them! The worthless PP goons have been salivating of making the Somalia divisions permenane just because they wish to exploit the desperate Somalilanders. It never occurrs to the idiots that ethnically fragile Ethiopia should be the last to wish divisions on other nations. Now Ethiopian Somalis have formed an alliance for self-determination. It won't be long before they take their Kilil out of the disintegrating mess! People who live in glass houses should never throw stones!

TN Commentaries

Somali People’s Alliance for Self‑Determination (SPAS)

ETHIOPIA ― #BREAKING - Three Somali political organizations namely the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), the Congress for Somali Cause (CSC), and the Somali Regional Democratic Alliance (SRDA), announced from Jigjiga on Sunday the creation of a new coalition called the «Somali People’s Alliance for Self‑Determination (SPAS)».

The coalition’s stated purpose is to strengthen Somali political representation in Ethiopia’s Somali Region and push for genuine self‑determination (እስከ መገንጠል).

In their joint declaration, the groups said they were responding to the historical incorporation of predominantly Somali‑inhabited territories into the Ethiopian state during the colonial era and thereafter, a process they said occurred without the free and informed consent of the local Somali population.

They accused successive Ethiopian governments - imperial, military, and federal - of marginalizing Somalis politically, manipulating regional demographics, centralizing authority, and permitting ongoing human‑rights abuses in the Somali Region.

The coalition also said that a prolonged period of peaceful political engagement since Ethiopia’s 2018 political transition had not produced meaningful results. That year, the ONLF signed a peace agreement with the federal government in Asmara, formally ending decades of armed struggle against Addis Ababa and transitioning the movement into a legal political party.

According to the new declaration, the patience of the Somali political movements has now run out, and a more unified and strategic effort is needed to address what they describe as persistent exclusion, failed implementation of past agreements, and the denial of constitutional self‑administration rights for the Somali people within Ethiopia’s federal framework. [TN]