Reports reaching the Og’aden from both within Og’aden and inside the self styled fiefdom in North Western Somalia confirm that there are no Og’aden National Liberation Army (ONLA) units that are surrounded by neither TPLF militias nor militias from the self-styled Somali fiefdom in the North West Somalia province (Somaliland). The reporters also confirm that there are no ONLA units that are deployed outside the Og’aden borders at the time of going to press.
Since many within the TPLF militia hierarchy have openly accused the new regime in the self styled fiefdom in the North West of having sympathy for ‘ONLF’, the reporters believe that this type of rumor is meant to show the TPLF regime how ‘determined’ this new regime is in controlling its borders so that the ONLF does not use the region as a transit point.
