5 October 2019 Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49945694 Huge crowds turned out in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, as it hosted for the first time in more than a century the annual Irreecha thanksgiving festival of the Oromo, the country’s largest ethnic group. In one Irreecha tradition, freshly cut grass and flowers are placed in water to thank God…
First published August 9, 2018 | by Assefa Tefera Dibaba In the past, on another platform (at OSA Conference, July 2016, Washington DC), I put forward three scenarios for the escalating Oromo civil resistance to bring about a systemic change, and not just a reform: a) If it obtains a degree of support from the…
OCTOBER 5, 2019 / 9:46 PM ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group celebrated in Addis Ababa on Saturday at the start of an annual thanksgiving festival which was marred by violence in 2016. Security was high for Irreecha, which is celebrated by the Oromo people to mark the start…
Aspirations and Realities in Africa: Ethiopia’s Quiet Revolution Source: https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/aspirations-and-realities-in-africa-ethiopias-quiet-revolution/ By Jon Temin and Yoseph Badwaz ABSTRACT While enormous challenges persist, the ongoing political opening in Ethiopia offers an opportunity for the expansion of democracy and respect for human rights in a geopolitically important state, and is already having significant implications for peace and security…
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/ethiopias-leader-warns-plotters-following-coup-attempt/2019/07/01/c2e1241a-9c18-11e9-83e3-45fded8e8d2e_story.html?utm_term=.fdcf50e44a61 By Elias Meseret | AP July 1 at 12:01 PM ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia’s prime minister has issued a strong warning to anyone who would plot to topple his government, following a coup attempt in the country’s northwestern Amhara region. Addressing lawmakers on Monday, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said the attack in Amhara as…
By Adrian Blomfield, AFRICA CORRESPONDENT 30 JUNE 2019 • 7:00AM SOURCE: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/30/warnings-africas-yugoslavia-ethiopia-coup-attempt-heightens/ The meeting was meant to have been top-secret. The men gathered inside the room were the most powerful in northern Ethiopia’s Amhara region. The agenda before them was incendiary: the removal of Asamnew Tsige, the regional security chief whose shadowy ambitions had chilled…
June 12, 2019 By Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Source: https://www.sarahhinlickywilson.com/blog/2019/6/12/lutheran-saints-4-onesimos-nesib-and-aster-ganno?fbclid=IwAR3_N5X6tuT2YqO4Tmo_u4zsQt_7UH5ahGV5IyvWHNLbJcds76MCq-Hqsow If you attend a Lutheran church you may have noticed occasionally the unfamiliar name “Onesimos Nesib” among the commemorations of saints. Here’s his story—one that can’t be told without that of his friend and coworker, Aster Ganno. Go to an Ethiopian church in the U.S. today…
By Ibsaa Guutama 14 June 2019 The Amaaraa are pushing them to the corner and have started attacking them taking cover under federation. They are being heard saying, this is not your country, what are you doing among us get lost. Historically and legally it is not only this one but Oromo have more left…
There are deep reasons that imagined communities will always be a powerful reality in international politics. BY STEPHEN M. WALT | JUNE 4, 2019, 10:12 AM Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/06/04/you-cant-defeat-nationalism-so-stop-trying/ Way back in 2011, I wrote a column for Foreign Policy on “the most powerful force in the world.” The powerful force I had in mind wasn’t…
By Ibsaa Guutama 05/06/2019 At this point in history restoring the Ethiopian empire is out of question. Negotiation has to start for a New Union based on the will of all nations and nationalities. To decide on their destiny is exclusive right of each of them. Only their independence, federation or confederation could bring peace…
Source: https://oromiatimes.org/2014/01/04/evidence-meneliks-genocide-against-oromo-and-other-nations/ By Falmataa Oromo First Published on Oromia Times 4 Jan 2014 Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn (1990: 24) wrote that ‘No fewer than 80 percent of the Herero and 50 percent of the Nama had… fallen victim to colonial rule’. They indicated that the Herero and Nama were exterminated for opposing German colonial…
By Professor Mohammed Hassen April 25, 2019 Georgia State University This paper attempts to briefly discuss the development of Oromo Nationalism and the continuous multi-faceted attack on Oromo cultural, civic and political organizations. The paper aims to show that the attack on Oromo political and cultural institutions which began during the imperial era, continued through…
By: Itana Gammada April 18, 2019 Introduction A nation cannot survive, let alone develop and prosper, without having full control over its land, resources and the capacity to direct those resources towards economic development. An effective development plan requires: 1) free mobility of available national resources; 2) a people-oriented and firmly secured national organization;…
Itana Gammada Ebla 18, 2019 Walbarsiisa Sabi tokko misoomuu fi duroomuun hafee yoo lafa, qabeenya fi dandeettii qabeenya sana gara misoomaa diinagdeetti masaku dandeessisu irratt too’annoo hin qabaanne itt fufee jiraachuu hin dandahu. Wanti karoorri misoomaa dhimma baasu gaafatu 1) qabeenyi sabaa jiruu bilisummaan sosso’uu dandahu 2) jaarmaa sabaa jabaa ummata wiirtuu tolfate 3) hoggansa…
By Ibsaa Guutama 10 April 2019 OLF is the first-born Oromo political organization. It was founded to free Oromia from Ethiopian colonialism and establish independent Democratic Republic Oromia. Since then, as Oromo struggle advanced with strength much change has taken place in the empire. Today except for colonial mentality colonial relations are no more what…
Source: Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-horne-ethiopia-abiy-ahmed-democracy-20190408-story.html By FELIX HORNE APRIL 8, 2019 The ascent of Dr. Abiy Ahmed to the post of prime minster in Ethiopia a year ago was a rare positive story in a year filled with grim news globally. Within months of taking office, his administration released tens of thousands of political prisoners,…
