Institutions of the Global South, Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner, pp. 165, Routledge, 2008, ISBN 9780203018422, ... Somalia had championed secessionist irredentist movements in Ethiopia and Kenya, to the point of invading the Ogaden, an area annexed by Ethiopia but with a heavy Somali population. The invasion in 1977 was repelled by Ethiopian troops with the help of their Soviet and Cuban allies ...