War of Ogaden
In 1977, alive Somalis in the area of the Ogaden in Ethiopia engaged, after the fall of the Ethiopian empire of Addis-Abeba, in an armed struggle for their fastening with the Somalia. The rebels were supported and armed by Somalia, which sent troops.
As of the end of 1977, Somalis controlled the major part of Ogaden. In 1978, Ethiopia, helped by Cuba and the Soviet Union which had operated a spectacular inversion of alliance, launched a counter-attack, took again the control of the area and proposed its support for the dissenting movements of Somalia, based mainly in the north of the country. The later combat precipitated a flow of refugees (estimated at nearly two million in 1981) in Somalia who were used as mass of operation to the general Siad Barre. The the United States brought an at the same time humane and military help, and, in exchange, were authorized to use the naval installations of Berbera, an old Soviet base. The hostilities with Ethiopia continued in a sporadic way until in 1988, date on which an peace agreement was signed.
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