The Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF) was a separatist rebel group fighting in eastern Ethiopia to create an independent state. It played a major role in the Ogaden War of 1977-78 assisting the invading Somali Army. Since the end of the Ethiopian Civil War, the WSLF was almost totally incorporated into the Western Somali Democratic Party.
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