Classified document on ethiopia propasal to britain in 1945 to handover awdal region in exchange for ogaden region

[galhareeri]

Read the document wel it says ethiopian are wiling to give up the ogaden region to have access to the sea which is more important to them


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[Tiyeglow]

Just goes to show how arbitrary and genuinely ludacris it is to fight over colonial borders.
Israel's ideology of 2,000 years old land of Cannanites holds more water than claiming British Somaliland to be a reasonable grounds of starting in post-colonial nation states.

 

[mohammdov]

the agreement took place in 1929-1930 I was reading the memoirs of the British guy who was discussing them in Addis Ababa but the Ethiopians backed down when they knew that there was oil in Ogadeniya.