Shifta War
{'<entity_0>': 'North Eastern Province', '<entity_1>': 'Somali Republic', '<entity_2>': '1967', '<entity_3>': '1963', '<entity_4>': 'Shifta War', '<entity_5>': 'Kenya', '<entity_6>': 'war'}
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The <entity_4> (<entity_3>–<entity_2>) was a secessionist conflict in which ethnic Somalis in the <entity_0> (NFD) of <entity_5> attempted to secede from <entity_5> to join Somalia. The <entity_6> ended in <entity_2> when Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, Prime Minister of the <entity_1>, signed a ceasefire with <entity_5> at the Arusha Conference on <entity_2>. However, after the dissolution of the former British colonies in East Africa, Britain granted administration of the <entity_0> to <entity_5> despite a) an informal plebiscite demonstrating the overwhelming desire of the region's population to join the newly formed <entity_1>, and b) the fact that the NFD was and still is almost exclusively inhabited by ethnic Somalis. The <entity_0> was closed to general access (along with other parts of <entity_5>) as a "scheduled" area (ostensibly closed to all outsiders, including members of parliament, as a means of protecting the nomadic inhabitants), and news from it was very difficult to obtain. However, as part of its effort to reassure the public, the Voice of <entity_5> was warned not to refer to the conflict as a "border dispute", while a special government committee decided to refer to the rebels as "shiftas" to minimise the political nature of the <entity_6>. In <entity_2>, Kenyan fears reached a fever pitch, and a special government committee was created to prepare for a full-scale <entity_6> with Somalia. These bore fruit in <entity_2>, when the governments of <entity_5> and Somalia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (the Arusha Memorandum) that resulted in an official ceasefire, though regional security did not prevail until 1969.
['war']