The Ethiopian-Somali conflict over the Ogadeen region and the role of the Organization of African Unity in settling it 1964-1978 AD

Abstract

The major European countries divided the African continent during the nineteenth century AD in a way that suits their interests, and they established imaginary borders that had no geographical or historical basis for the areas they controlled. Despite the end of the colonial period, the consequences of those divisions continued, and led to major conflicts between African countries.  After its independence in 1960 AD, Somalia tried to reunite its lands based on the unity of blood and common history, and considered the Ogaden region part of the Somali nation, so it entered into violent wars with Ethiopia, which controlled the region for more than a century, and this led to the outbreak of two bloody wars.  The first was in 1964 AD, and the second was in 1977 AD.

The only emerging African organization had to confront this conflict since Its establishment in 1963 AD, and to seek by all means to end the war that broke out between the two countries, but it did not succeed in ending it, and most of its decisions were based on the call to hold negotiations between the parties concerned, and the call to establish peace between the two countries without  To leave an impact on the ground.