Ogaden Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/ogaden/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 27 May 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Ogaden Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/ogaden/ 32 32 Ethiopia wipes Somalia off its official map https://jjcornish.com/2019/05/ethiopia-wipes-somalia-off-its-official-map/ Mon, 27 May 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/05/ethiopia-wipes-somalia-off-its-official-map/ Ethiopia’s apologised to Somalia for wiping the country off a map posted on its official website. Addis Ababa says it does not know how the offending chart got there and has replaced it with the logo of the department of foreign affairs. The map shows Somalia as part of Ethiopia, but accurately outlines the breakaway […]

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]]> Ethiopia’s apologised to Somalia for wiping the country off a map posted on its official website.

Addis Ababa says it does not know how the offending chart got there and has replaced it with the logo of the department of foreign affairs.

The map shows Somalia as part of Ethiopia, but accurately outlines the breakaway Somaliland which is not internationally recognized.

At first sight, it might hark back to the bloody history between Ethiopia and Somalia. 

They’ve been fighting border wars since 1964.

International forces were involved in the Ogaden war between 1977 and 1978.

But the Ethiopian cartographer has left his diplomatic compatriots more to apologise for.

The offending map shows the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Congo as one country.

And it does not separate  Sudan and South Sudan.

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