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Al Jazeera
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Mohamed Gabobe

Guns are silent, but war lingers for Ogaden’s former women rebel fighters

Gaari Ismael and her troop of female ONLF rebels in Ogaden in 2008 [Courtesy of Gaari Ismael]

Mogadishu, Somalia – Hinda Aden and her fellow rebel fighters were trekking through the grasslands of Ethiopia’s Ogaden region under the cover of night, to avoid the enemy’s gaze, when they saw headlights approaching in the distance.

“We knew who it was – that’s when we started running,” Hinda says about that fateful August 2006 night – the first time she found herself on the front lines of a decades-long war that had raged in Ethiopia’s far east.

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