Fiq

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Coordinates: 8 ° 8 '  N , 42 ° 18'  E

Fiq​

Ethiopia

Fiq (also Fiiq or Fik ) is a city in the Somali region of Ethiopia . It is the capital of the Fiq Zone , located in the territory of Somaliland from the communities of Ogadeni- Darod .

According to the Central Statistics Agency of Ethiopia for 2005 Fiq had 12,991 inhabitants. In 1997, 99.03% of the 8,656 residents were Somali.

In the Ogaden War Fiq was early by the Somali army and the WSLF taken. After the fall of Jijiga , it served as a starting point for attacks against Harar from the south, which were to pinch this important city along with attacks from the north. Despite unexpectedly strong resistance from Somali, Ethiopian troops with Cuban support retook Fiq by March 8, 1979.

Since 2007, the conflict between the separatist Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and the Ethiopian army has intensified in the Somali region , Fiq is one of the areas affected. In September 2007 the authorities denied access to the city of the Belgian section of Doctors Without Borders , which wanted to bring medicines to Fiq.

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1. ↑ Central Statistical Agency : 2005 National Statistics, Section – B Population ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Table B.4 (PDF; 1.8 MB) 
2. ↑ CSA: 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Somali Region, Vol. 1 ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 51.8 MB), 1998 
3. ^ Gebru Tareke: The Ethiopia-Somalia War of 1977 Revisited , in: International Journal of African Historical Studies 33, 2002
4. ↑ Human Rights Watch: Collective Punishment - War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in the Ogaden area of ​​Ethiopia's Somali Region , 2008