ADDIS ABABA, Aug 3 (Reuters) - An Ethiopian court jailed a Canadian man for life on Monday after he was convicted of membership in a separatist rebel group fighting for independence for an ethnically Somali part of the country.

Bashir Ahmed Makhtal, who was born in Ethiopia but had travelled to Canada as a refugee and became a Canadian citizen in 1994, was found guilty last week on three charges related to membership of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF).

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