Conflict

1. Country name
-Somalia

2. Conflict
-Ethiopia accuses neighbors of supporting an ethnic Somali rebel group that attacked a Chinese-run oil installation this week, killing 74 people.

3. Copy the headlines and the link to a news item reporting on that conflict.
-"Somali conflict crosses borders","Khartoum, Sudan and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia" http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0426/p06s02-woaf.html

4. Summarize the news item in your own words in 5 - 8 sentences. (identify the main ideas) *There is a Chinese oil installation in Ethiopia and it started to fade.
*Tuesday's early morning raid in Ethiopia's remote southeast Ogaden region near the border with Somalia, left 74 people dead, including nine Chinese oil workers.
*Ethiopian analysts say the unprecedented scale of the attack, claimed by the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), suggested it could only have been carried out with support from Islamists in neighboring Somalia.

5. Describe the conflict.
- The conflict with the oil installation, people are dying because of the Somali´s attacks.

6. Based on your research
- geography and timeline, explain why the conflict happened. Which ones are the roots of the conflict?
-Ethiopia neighbors are the roots where this cinflict is happening. The conflict happened because people are not happy anymore about the conflicts that having the oil installation mean.

7. Answer:
a) Who is involved in the conflict? -Khartoum, Sudan and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

b) Where is it happening? -Ethiopia

c) When did it happen and how long has it been going on? April 26, 2007 till today.