"The arrival of the Oromo tribes from the south caused great disruption to the Somali tribes weakened tribes and the Christian Abyssinians. After the Muslim and Christians exhausted themselves with their ongoing wars; the newly arrived Oromos entered Ifat/Adal region (i.e. Dire Dawa & Harar region). The arrival of the Oromo tribes caused renewed conflict. According to Gurgura elders from Dir Dawa; such Abdullahi Giricho, recall that Gurgure wadaads advised the Gurgure warriors to wage war on the Oromo Ala & Obora, for three days. After the three day war, the Gurgura's successful war against the newly arrived Oromos saved the Nolle from the Ala and Obora. The small Nolle tribe became allies of the Gurgura and pay blood money with them during conflicts with.
Oromo political organizations sought to coerce the Oromo speaking Gurgure in the rural villages of Dire Dawa and Oromia region, to get them to identify themselves as Oromo for their political, land grabbing and made up census propaganda though they belong to and identified as Gurgura Somalis. Oromo elders claimed that "the Gurgura people who speak the Oromo language belong to the Oromo nation and they only started to identify themselves with the Somali after the 1974 change of the Haile Selassie regime" though Somali's strongly disagree."
If you give them an inch, they take a mile, never trust them, we won't be making the same mistakes as other Dir clans.