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An Empire That Refuses to Learn — When Power Is Reduced to Drawing Lines with Assab Port
By OT Editorial Posted on2026-01-062026-01-06

The delusional redrawing of maps to suggest the annexation of Assab Port is not a harmless provocation but a dangerous rehearsal for an unnecessary war—one that diplomacy can and must avert. History shows who pays when empires test fantasies with force: coerced Oromo youth sent to fight wars they did not choose. The Oromo people have learned from loss, and they reject yet another imperial gamble with their sons and daughters.

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Dreaming Out of Sequence: Abiy Ahmed, AI University, and Ethiopia’s Education Crisis
By OT Editorial Posted on2026-01-052026-01-05

The announcement of an AI University at Addis Ababa University’s 75th Anniversary was framed as visionary, yet it exposed a deeper contradiction in Ethiopia’s education crisis. While graduates remain unemployed, schools are closed by insecurity, and academic standards decline, grand AI ambitions risk becoming spectacle rather than substance. This article examines how misplaced sequencing, political psychology, and institutional fragility turn the promise of an AI University into a symbol of imbalance rather than progress.

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Math Meets PP Myth: The 0.2% “Appreciation” as Statistical Noise and Political Messaging
By OT Editorial Posted on2026-01-012026-01-02

A 0.2% “appreciation” is not news from the NBE Governor; it is noise. In FX markets, such a shift is statistically meaningless—well within volatility and margin of error. Presenting it as progress is not optimism but contempt: a technocratic sleight of hand that assumes the public cannot tell arithmetic theater from economic reality. This is fifth installment in the Math Meets PP Regime Myth series.

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Editorial | Oromummaa Scholarship

Asafa Jalata: They Tried to Erase His Scholarship. Instead, They Enshrined It
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-12-232025-12-23
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The attempt to erase Professor Asafa Jalata’s scholarship has achieved the opposite. By attacking decades of rigorous research on Oromummaa, Amhara extremist elites have elevated Asafa Jalata into a historical league of scholars once vilified for naming injustice. Suppression has not weakened the Oromo claim; it has validated it. When scholarship is silenced rather than debated, it is not the scholar who is exposed—but the fear of those who cannot tolerate truth.

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When “Democracy” Applauds an Empire: Why Prime Minister Modi’s Speech Is Deeply Disappointing to Ethiopia’s Oppressed Nations
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-12-172025-12-17

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to Ethiopia’s Parliament was wrapped in warmth and symbolism, but it also echoed a familiar Ethiopianist storyline: a seamless, timeless national narrative that quietly sidesteps conquest, forced assimilation, and the lived realities of Oromo and other oppressed peoples. When the leader of the world’s largest democracy lends prestige to that framing—amid today’s grave human-rights and displacement crises—disappointment is not only understandable, but inevitable.

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Getachew Reda and the Corrosive Politics of Ethiopia
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-11-262025-11-25

Getachew Reda’s dramatic shift—from accusing Abiy Ahmed of genocide in Tigray to serving within his administration and now failing to acknowledge his own words—exposes the moral decay embedded in Ethiopian politics. His reversal is not subtle; it is documented and undeniable. It reflects a system where truth is punished, dishonesty is rewarded, and individuals reshape their convictions to survive. Yet agency remains: integrity is never impossible, only costly. History will remember not the titles he held, but the truths he abandoned.

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Why Abiy Ahmed and the Ethiopian Federal Regime Still Reluctant to Declare Amhara Fano a Terrorist Organization?
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-10-242025-10-24

Why has Abiy Ahmed’s regime never declared Amhara Fano a terrorist organization while branding the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) without sufficient evidence? This is not hypocrisy—it is moral perversion. Amhara Fano’s massacres across Oromia are met with silence, exposing a regime that outsources genocide by proxy and hides behind the camouflage of selective justice and political convenience.

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The Noonnoo Massacre: A Shame That Stains Oromia and Ethiopia Alike
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-10-202025-10-21
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The Noonnoo massacre has once again exposed the moral decay within Oromia’s political leadership and Ethiopia’s federal establishment. When 27 innocent lives — mostly children and the elderly — are slaughtered, yet no voice of outrage rises from those sworn to defend the people, silence becomes complicity. The tragedy is not just the massacre itself, but the cancerous indifference of leaders who have traded conscience for comfort and turned Oromia’s pain into background noise.

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Which Is True? The PP Regime’s “Ascent to Prosperity” — or the World Bank’s “Descent into Poverty”?
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-10-162025-10-16

The Prosperity Party’s “ascent to prosperity” slogan collapses under the weight of World Bank data showing Ethiopia’s poverty rate rising from 33% in 2016 to 39% in 2021 — and projected to hit 43% by 2025. Far from climbing, the country is sinking deeper into deprivation, with over 67% of citizens multidimensionally poor. The regime’s recent “credit cap” gimmick and nuclear-energy fantasies expose its confusion — a delusion of progress masking a painful descent into poverty.

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The Real Invasion: Setting the Record Straight on Irreechaa in Finfinnee
By OT 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: Psychology Behind the Criticism of Oromo Thanksgiving
By OT 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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The Happy Tears of One, the Anguished Tears of Thousands
By OT 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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Editorial | Politics

Shabo Media's Masterclass Via Interview: Borana Elders' Wisdom Where Leaders Stay Silent
By OT 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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A Time Bomb Buried in Oromia and Somali RegionThe Dangerous Games of Ethiopia's Prosperity Party Regime
By OT 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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The Sinister Dirty Game of the PP Regime with Moyale
By OT 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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What the Oromo Dialogue Online Tells Us About Missed Opportunities, Unity, and the Fight for Identity
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-07-202025-07-20

The Oromo Dialogue held online yesterday [Saturday, 19 July] exposed deep cracks in strategy and unity, highlighting how obvious solutions—like backing the OLA—were sidelined. As Oromo identity erasure intensifies under the current regime, the Oromo Discussion must mark a turning point, not just a reflection. Will words become action before history closes the window?

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