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The Real Invasion: Setting the Record Straight on Irreechaa in Finfinnee
ByOT Editorial Posted on2025-10-052025-10-05
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When Amhara journalist Mesay Mekonnen called the Oromo people’s Irreechaa celebration in Finfinnee an “invasion,” he inverted history itself. Finfinnee was founded through the blood of Tuulama Oromos — victims of the real invasion under Menelik II’s empire. To call their thanksgiving trespass is to mock truth and morality. Irreechaa in Finfinnee is no invasion; it is a people’s dignified reaffirming of the center of their own homeland, culture, and memory.

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Much Ado About Irreechaa in Finfinnee: Roots, Identity, and the Future of Coexistence
ByLeemman Leeqaa Posted on2025-10-012025-09-29

The festival of Irreechaa in Finfinnee is not an invasion but a return to roots. It embodies the Oromo people’s right to celebrate their culture in their own capital. Ethiopia’s unity will endure only if built on equality and mutual respect, not cultural supremacy or denial of history.

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Much Ado About Irreechaa: Psychology Behind the Criticism of Oromo Thanksgiving
ByOT Editorial Posted on2025-09-302025-09-30

Irreechaa is not a religion—just as American Thanksgiving is not. It is a thanksgiving rooted in Oromo tradition yet embraced across faiths and nations. Critics, some even using AI to caricature Oromos, miss the joy, colour, and harmony it embodies. At its heart, Irreechaa is not dogma but a universal celebration of gratitude, diversity, and humanity.

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A Reactor in a Tinderbox: Why Ethiopia’s Nuclear Ambition Demands Global Scrutiny
ByBiqila Bariso, PhD (Physics) Posted on2025-09-282025-09-28
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Ethiopia’s push for nuclear power station is less about energy need than regime vanity, pursued by a leader who weaponize conflict, neglect citizens, and disregard safety. With a record of atrocities, proxy wars, and environmental neglect, entrusting such a volatile state with nuclear materials risks catastrophe not just for Ethiopia, but for the entire region.

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The Final Goal of Fano Led-Amhara Elites and the Resistances They May Face
ByLeemman Leeqaa Posted on2025-09-182025-09-18

Introduction The ultimate objective of the Amhara political elite appears to be the restoration of a centralized, unitary Ethiopian state, effectively dismantling the current multinational federal arrangement and overturning the existing constitution. However, this vision is neither straightforward nor uncontested. Contrary to this centralist ambition, the diverse nations, nationalities, and peoples within the Ethiopian empire…

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The Amhara Elites’ Monumental Failure in Insisting on a Dead Language for Primary Education
ByOlii Boran Posted on2025-09-182025-09-18

The push to impose Ge’ez as a subject in Ethiopian primary schools in the Amhara region has reignited debate on the futility of elevating a dead language. Across history, such languages remain confined to liturgy or scholarship, never revived as mediums of modern schooling. Insisting otherwise is political miscalculation that risks alienation instead of cohesion.

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The Happy Tears of One, the Anguished Tears of Thousands
ByOT Editorial Posted on2025-09-092025-09-09

Ethiopia today elevates the happy tears of an autocratic ruler above the anguished tears of thousands. As Oromia bleeds from years of massacres, displacement, and proxy wars, state media buries the truth — while in grotesque contrast, the ruler’s tears of joy receive wall-to-wall coverage. History warns us: ignored anguish always erupts into tragedy. The world must act now, before Oromia’s tears ignite into an irreversible fire.

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Shabo Media's Masterclass Via Interview: Borana Elders' Wisdom Where Leaders Stay Silent
ByOT Editorial Posted on2025-09-022025-09-02

When leaders fall silent, elders rise. Shabo Media’s latest 105-minute interview with Borana elders is nothing short of a governance masterclass—clear, dignified, and unflinching. It tackles border grabs, unlawful killings, and Oromia’s bleeding wounds with a wisdom that dwarfs even the TED stage. A must-watch for activists, politicians, and everyday citizens alike.

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Math Meets PP Regime Myth: Inflation That Eats Wages Alive in Ethiopia
ByEditorial Team Posted on2025-09-012025-09-01

This is the third episode in our “Math Meets PP Regime Myth” series, following [1] and [2]. The PP regime claims Ethiopia’s inflation will ease to around 10%, but ground realities tell a different story. Food staples, rent, utilities, and transport have soared by 100% or more, with wages frozen for decades. For ordinary households, real inflation isn’t 10% — it’s in triple digits, perhaps over 500%. Official figures don’t comfort the poor; they insult them with Orwellian doublespeak.

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A Time Bomb Buried in Oromia and Somali RegionsThe Dangerous Games of Ethiopia's Prosperity Party Regime
ByOT Editorial Posted on2025-08-272025-08-27

The Prosperity Party regime of Ethiopia is playing a reckless game, redrawing boundaries and fuelling discord between Oromo and Somali peoples. History teaches us that injustice planted today never stays buried—it grows into resistance. Only the wisdom of brotherly nations, a united diaspora, and responsible foreign actors can defuse this potential time bomb before it explodes.

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Math Meets PP Myth: 30 Million Tree PlantersPP's Logic That Got Lost in the Forest
ByEditorial Team Posted on2025-08-142025-08-10

The PP regime proclaimed that 30 million Ethiopians planted trees in a single day — one sunrise, one countrywide mobilisation. Our math says this is less forestry and more fantasy. After filtering out children, retirees, and the unemployed, the “pool” shrinks — then reality slashes it further: logistics, transport, tools, water, supervision. In the debut of Math Meets PP Myth, we run a one-sunrise sanity check and strip the leaves off the claim until only the bare arithmetic — and the absurdity — remain.

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Math Meets PP Myth: Series Launch
ByEditorial Team Posted on2025-08-112025-08-10

Math Meets PP Myth is where Ethiopia’s wildest statistics finally get their day in court. From GDP growth rates that vanish on contact with reality to tree-planting claims that could reforest the moon, this recurring exposé pulls apart the propaganda, crunches the numbers, and exposes the fiction. The PP regime’s math isn’t sloppy — it’s engineered. And we’re here to make the abacus honest. Got a myth? Send it in. Let’s count truth back into the equation.

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Intellectual Capital Deficiency in GovernancePart One — Why the Horn of Africa Is a Global Case Study
ByMalkkaa Beenyaa, MA (Social Psychologist) Posted on2025-08-082025-08-08
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This article applies the Intellectual Capital framework—widely used in business and development—to the sphere of governance. Using the Horn of Africa as a case study, it explores how deficiencies in Intellectual Capital weaken state resilience, fuel instability, and block long-term solutions, while offering insights relevant to governance challenges worldwide.

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To Shimelis Abdissa and Caffee Oromia: Your Silence on Moyale Is Betrayal
ByEditorial Team Posted on2025-08-072025-08-07

To: Shimelis Abdissa, President of Oromia Caffee Oromia, The National Assembly of the Oromo People Shame on you! Days have passed since the Somali regional parliament declared Moyale and parts of Oromia as its own on 26th July, hoisting the Somali flag over Oromo land — and you’ve said nothing. Not a word. Not even…

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The Sinister Dirty Game of the PP Regime with Moyale
ByOT Editorial Posted on2025-08-052025-08-04

The Moyale annexation saga is no accident — it is the latest chapter in the OPDO/PP regime’s betrayal of Oromia. While the Somali parliament claims Oromo land, Abiy Ahmed and Shimelis Abdissa remain shamefully silent. From orchestrated ethnic tension to psychological fear-mongering, the regime is using Moyale as a pawn not only to manage narratives but also to cling to power ahead of the 2026 elections. But the Oromo people are no longer fooled. The betrayal is exposed. And Oromia is no longer silent.

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10 Compelling Reasons Shimelis Abdissa Is Not Effectively Governing Oromia
ByEditorial Team Posted on2025-07-302025-07-29
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Shimelis Abdissa, nominally President of Oromia, has become emblematic of absentee leadership and quiet complicity in the face of tragedy, dispossession, and systemic betrayal. From his silence during national mourning to his role in dismantling Oromia’s autonomy and impoverishing its people, Shimelis serves not the Oromo nation but the pro unitary Ethiopia Prosperity Party (PP) regime. While we could come up with scores of reasons, for brevity and to get this to print, we chose 10 items that speak volumes.

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