Decolonization of Africa · BATTLE SITE ·
Ogaden War (1977–78)
On the Decolonization of Africa map as “The Ogaden War”
1977–78 — Somalia invades Ethiopia’s Somali-inhabited Ogaden and nearly wins — until a Soviet-Cuban airlift switches sides from Mogadishu to Addis and hurls the invasion back. Cold War patrons trade clients overnight.
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- Africa after independence (chapter 7 of Decolonization of Africa)
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- The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
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