Abdirahman Mahdi

Abdirahman Mahdi is the current Foreign Affairs Secretary and one of the founders of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), an armed political movement determined to make Ogaden an independent and sovereign state in Horn of Africa. The ONLF is engaged in a war with government of Ethiopia
In addition, Mahdi is also a member of the central committee and executive council, highest decision-making bodies, of the ONLF. Furthermore, he is the current vice president. of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), elected at its XII General Assembly held at the Flemish Parliament in Brussels on 4 July 2015.
Mahdi founded the ONLF on August 15, 1984, along with five other prominent Ogadeni activists: Mohamed Ismail Omar, current vice chairman of the ONLF; Sheikh Ibrahim Abdalla Mohamed, former chairman of the ONLF (1991–1998); Abdi Ibrahim Ghehleh, former trade unionist; Abdirahman Yusuf Magan, former WSLF member; and Abdullahi Muhammed Sa'adi, former WSLF representative in Kuwait. The ONLF is currently led by Chairman Mohammed Omar Osman, who was elected to the post at a 1998 national convention.
The Somali region of Ethiopia is self-administered by ethnic Somalians.