Ethiopian government accused of deadly air strikes on Oromia region
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Ethiopian government accused of deadly air strikes on Oromia region

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Source: Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ethiopia-government-accused-deadly-air-strikes-oromiya-region-2022-10-27 Summary: Oromo groups say hundreds killed in air strike No comment from government and army spokespersons Alleged strikes come as Tigray peace talks start NAIROBI, Oct 27 (Reuters) – Two organisations from Ethiopia’s Oromia region have accused the army of conducting air strikes there in recent days which they said had killed…

Oromia: Abiy’s War of Attrition and the Oromo National Struggle
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Oromia: Abiy’s War of Attrition and the Oromo National Struggle

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By: Itana Gammada, June 29, 2021 A people under colonial occupation have a maximum of two choices, either stand up and fight for their freedom and dignity or accept humiliation, subjugation, victimization and perpetual slavery. Throughout human history, colonialism has never been an option. Rather, oppressed people worldwide make the necessary sacrifices to achieve their…

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Evidence: Menelik’s Genocide Against Oromo and Other Nations

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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…

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An Independent Oromia is Inevitable

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By Gumaa Guddaa This article was first published on Oromo Affairs blog site on September 10, 2010 and now republished on Oromia Today to honour the Oromo revolutionaries martyred for the liberation of Oromia since the November 2015 uprise. Introduction Oromia was forcefully annexed by a neighboring country called Abyssinia at the end of the…

OLF is Oromo, Oromo is OLF
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OLF is Oromo, Oromo is OLF

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Oromo liberation movement originated from pain oppression caused to Oromo society. At a period when poverty, illiteracy, ignorance and physical and psychological abuse reached an intolerable level in Oromia social movements to ameliorate them started to show up and political grievances started to simmer. Among the social movements the greatest was Maccaa and Tuulamaa Self…

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Editorial

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Remembering our Heroes and Heroines April is a month when Oromo communities all over the world remember their heroes and heroines (henceforth heroes). Particularly, 15th April has a special place in the Oromo struggle for freedom. It is on this particular day, in 1980, that the Oromo people lost a dozen of their gallant and…