Jamal Awil

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Somali nationalism overrode Soviet allegiance in Ogaden. [contrarian]

The Russians who had, as it were, come in to Somalia with the Ogaden (see above), went out with it, an about-turn which testified to the abiding force of local nationalism in the area

I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Som…, loc. 574