| Sidama National Liberation Front | |
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Flag of the Sidama Liberation Front
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| Dates of operation | 1999 – present |
| Active regions | Sidama Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia |
| Ideology | Sidama self-determination |
| Part of | AFD (2006-2021) UFEFCF (2021-present) |
| Allies |  ONLF[1] OLF[2] |
| Opponents |  Ethiopia |
| Battles and wars | Conflicts in the Horn of Africa Ethiopian civil conflict (2018–present) |
| Website | Official website |
The Sidama National Liberation Front,[3][4][5] also known as Sidama Liberation Front[2][1]orSidama Liberation Movement[citation needed] (abbreviated SNLForSLF) is a rebel group in the Sidama RegionofEthiopia.[3][6] The SNLF allied with the Oromo Liberation Front in 2012[2] and the Ogaden National Liberation Front in 2015[1] against the Tigray People's Liberation Front.
The Sidama National Liberation Front was established c. 1999.[4][6]
The SNLF describes its aim as self-determination of the Sidama people.[4] In 2016, SNLF representatives met with other groups in Asmara, creating the People's Alliance for Freedom and Democracy, which protested against the "brutal suppression of the unarmed protesters in Oromia by the TPLF". The alliance protested against multinational corporations and the TPLF-dominated government expropriating natural resources from poor agro-pastoral communities and displacing the inhabitants.[3]
In 2017, Denboba Natie was a member of the SNLF's executive committee.[5]
In 2012, the SNLF (at the time, SLF), made a joint statement with the Oromo Liberation Front, accusing the TPLF of deliberately creating violent conflict between Sidama and Oromo groups "through multifaceted attacks". The SNLF and OLF together called for "subjugated peoples in general" and the Oromo and Sidama to avoid being lured into conflict and "instead form their historically effective common elders committee and resolve their conflicts in the established traditional way."[2]
As of 2015[update], the SNLF was allied with two other rebel groups, the Ogaden National Liberation Front and the Oromo Liberation Front, and was fighting against the government of Ethiopia, dominated by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPDRF).[1][7]
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