Issa and Gurgura Liberation Front (IGLF) was a political faction in eastern
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
, led by
Riyaale Ahmed Formed in 1991. IGLF, which is based amongst the
Issa and
Gurgura
The Gurgure, Gorgorah or Gurgura ( so, Gurgure, om, Gurgura, ar, غرغرة) is a northern Somali clan, a sub-division of the Dir clan family.
Distribution
The Gurgure are the majority in the Erer district in the Sitti Zone and Dire Dawa ...
clans in northern
Hararghe, evolved out of the Iil Tire division of the
Western Somali Liberation Front. During its initial period of existence, its armed members clashed many times with the
Somali National Movement along the Ethiopia-
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...
border.
Around 1992 IGLF was involved in clashes with the dominant
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). During this period IGLF sabotaged the
Addis Ababa - Djibouti Railway.
Defunct political parties in Ethiopia
Factions of the Ethiopian Civil War
Rebel groups in Ethiopia
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