During his brief tenure, he was seen as a committed enemy of the al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, a now-defunct militant Islamic group based in the Ogaden and parts of Somalia, because he worked closely with the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front during their early operations against the movement.
In July 2011, two Swedish journalists were captured by Ethiopian troops in the Ogaden during a clash with ONLF.
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According to Reuters the U.N. called for an independent investigation into allegations of human rights abuses by Ethiopian forces in the Ogaden region already some years ago.
In the 1970s, Magool sang famous patriotic songs while Somalia was at war with Ethiopia over the Ogaden.
On July 1, 2011 Schibbye was arrested along with the Swedish photographer Johan Persson in Ethiopia suspected of terrorist crimes after they illegally entered the Ogaden region from Somalia in the company of ONLF guerrillas.
It is the story of The Twentieth Century told by a last, and is inspired by the Terra Matta, a memoir published by Einaudi in 2007, written in approximate Italian by Vincenzo Rabito (class 1899), a former laborer and Sicilian worker semi-literate but of great narrative ability, who attended the world War I and African adventure (in Ogaden).
In the 1970s, the town was a staging area for the Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF), which sought to liberate the Ogaden and annex it to form a Greater Somalia.
They were in the region to investigate activities in the Ogaden of an oil explorer which in 2009 bought licenses in Ethiopia from Lundin Petroleum.
Morgan's militia is currently based in the Ethiopian town of Gode, located in the southern Ogaden.
In 1931, the Dejazmach ("Commander of the Gate") of Harar, Gebremariam, to whom the Ogaden had been assigned, attacked and destroyed Olol Dinle's fortress at Mustahil and menaced the Italian Rezidenza at Beledweyne, though Gebremariam avoided armed confrontation and withdrew.
By September 1977, Somalia controlled 90% of the Ogaden and captured strategic cities such as Jijiga and put heavy pressure on Dire Dawa, threatening the train route from the latter city to Djibouti.