The following are some of the pictures depicting recent protests by the Oromo people in Oromia and worldwide. As widely covered by the international media, the protests were triggered by the so-called “Addis Ababa Masterplan” which has been rejected by the Oromo people nation-wide, because of the disastrous effects the Read more…
JANUARY 22, 2016 By: Felix Horne, Researcher, Horn of Africa “Badessa” was a third-year engineering student in western Ethiopia in April 2014 when he and most of his classmates joined a protest over the potential displacement of ethnic Oromo farmers like his family because of the government’s plan to expand Read more…
The debate on the situation in Oormia & Ethiopia in the EU parliament and the resolution adopted on 21 January 2016 . Watch:
January 21, 2016 —FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—Media Contact: Anuradha Mittal, Oakland InstituteLewis Gordon, Environmental Defender Law Center Oakland, CA—With human rights as the special focus of the 26th Summit of the African Union that gets underway today in Ethiopia, the Oakland Institute and the Environmental Defender Law Center (EDLC) released a Read more…