Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front
The Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front of the Afar ( Afar: ' Safar Uguugumoh Demokrasiyyoh Inkiinoh Fooca (abbreviation Uguugumo ), also known as Uguguma or Ugogomo; Amharic ኢትዮጵያ ማህበረ - ዴሞክራሲ ፌደራላዊ ፓርቲ, English Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front, abbreviated ARDUF ) is Established in 1993, armed opposition group and at the same time a legal political party in the Afar region, an ethnically -based region in Ethiopia.
Ideology
The Uguugumo committed to the self-determination of the Afar and is in constant negotiations with the Ethiopian government. The party also advocates a unification of Afar in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea, and therefore does not recognize the independence of Eritrea.
The political party aims to unite all the Afar under one flag. Abwohl the type of enforcement and the goal in the past was not clear ( the reunification of Ethiopia and Eritrea, and inhabited by Afar region in Djibouti or an independent Afar State ), the party claimed in 1998 that they all Afar regions under an autonomous state within Ethiopia - similar to today's existing since 1996 Afar region of Ethiopia. However, you want to also add that inhabited regions of Afar in Eritrea and Djibouti to this region. As a consequence, the Uguugumo recognizes the independence of Eritrea, which was completed in 1993, not to.
History
The movement of the Uguugumo was founded in March 1993 as an alliance of three Afar organizations: The revolutionaries founded by Mohamooda Gaas 1991 Democratic Unity Union of Afar ( Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Union, ARDUU ), the Afar Ummatah Demokrasiyyoh Focca ( audf ) and the Revolutionary forces from Afar ( Afar Revolutionary forces, ARF ). Mohamooda Gaas was elected in 1995 to its Secretary-General, however, refused the office and left the office of the Vice - Chairman Muhyadin Mafatah, which in August 1996 by Djibouti to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. This was detained in Djibouti during the civil war with two other Afar leaders ( Habib Mahammad Yayyo and Jamal Abdulkadir Redo).
In 1999, the ruling Revolutionary Democratic Front founded the Ethiopian peoples from Uguugumo members and the merger of other organizations Afar National Democratic Party Afar, which currently rules the Afar region.
In July 2003, the party eventually became a member of the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces, which together won 52 of 527 parliamentary seats in the People's House of Representatives (First Chamber of the Ethiopian Parliament ) together with the Ethiopian parliamentary elections on 15 May 2005.