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…
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…
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,…
Article 39: Oromo Nationalism, Abyssinian Exceptionalism & Expectations Raised by Dr. Abiy Ahmed’s Premiership (Part II continued) Mekuria Bulcha, PhD, Professor 25 July 2018 Inclusion that excludes – a myth used to distort history As I have noted in the previous section of this article published on this website on July 12, the Abyssinian myth…
Professor Guluma Gemeda 7 June 2018 Since the fall of the Dergin 1991, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), as organizer and leader of the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), has dominated Ethiopian politics. The junior members of the ruling Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF)—the Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM), the Oromo People’s…
By Leenjiso Horo January 28, 2018 This article is in reference to Lamma Magarsa’s speech in Bahir Dar conference held between OPDO and ANDM on November 4, 2017. Lamma Magarsa, the former intelligence operative and the spy ring leader in Oromia and the current “president” of Oromia has made a speech addressing the Amhara regional…
By Caala Ibsa Oromo 15 November 2017 In the middle of mass protests and deepening crisis in Oromia, Lemma Megersa, president of the Oromia regional state, traveled to Bahr Dar, on November 4, 2017, with elders and Oromo People Democratic Organization (OPDO) leadership team to deliver a reconciliatory speech on the relationship between the Amhara…
October 15, 2017 Let the Oromo Protests Continue http://www.gettyimages.co.nz/detail/news-photo/people-protest-against-the-ethiopian-government-during-news-photo/856254358#people-protest-against-the-ethiopian-government-during-irreecha-the-picture-id856254358 by Caala Ibsa Oromo After the state of emergency, imposed on October 9, 2016, had tried to stifle it unsuccessfully, the Oromo mass protest of the TPLF-dominated Ethiopian regime has erupted again on October 11, 2017. It is obvious that earlier protests were triggered by the…
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By: Bayisa Wak-Woya wakwoya2016@gmail.com Geneva, 20th February, 2017 PART – I From the outset: The recent ESAT interview with Dr. Larebo encouraged me to write this note, something which I was thinking of doing for some years now. Although I am disappointed with both the form and content of the interview, I found it a…
By Leenjiso Horo, February 2017 Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it. —Frantz Fanon The Greatest Oromo Generation of 1960s The great Oromo generation of 1960s chose to fulfil its mission. Its mission has been and still is the liberation of Oromia. It rejected any political line…
A PROPOSAL ON THE CONSOLIDATION OF OROMO SUPPORT By: Koree Tokkummaa 29 December 2016 Over three months ago, a lady came up with an initiative on “#Oromo Protests Support Group” to go beyond mere exchange of information and urged the participants to organize a teleconference for a deliberation on what concrete measures need to be…
Source: The Irish Times http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/africa/ethnic-tensions-could-see-ethiopia-descending-into-civil-war-1.2898411 James Jeffrey in Addis Ababa No longer are bands of young men marauding on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, trying to set fire to foreign-owned factories. Nearly two months into Ethiopia’s six-month state of emergency, it appears to be having the desired effect: protests rocking its two…
By Leenjiso Horo October 2016 Today, there is a campaign by the ODF, OFC, Blue Party, Medred, Vision-Ethiopia and other organizations for the formation of “transitional government” of Ethiopia that includes the fascist TPLF. This “transitional government” is a coalition of Amhara nafxanyas, Oromo neo-gobanas, Tigrayan fascists, and other self-interested, power hungry, anti-liberation renegade forces…
Ibsaa Guutama Oromoon ummata guddaa beekamaa akka hin beekamne godhamee. Shira fi hacuuccaa gad isaan qabuuf godhame jalaa, tattaaffannaa ofiin ol ka’uu eegalani. Kanneen gargaarsa galtuu Oromoon barabaraan gad qabanii hambisuu barbaadan, jara humnaa fi qabeenya saanii tola bolqanii fi dhiiga saanii xuuxaa jiraatani. Isaanis, miseensota bulcha kolonii durii fi ammaa; raayyaa qabamaa fi daldaloota…
