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    Internet shutdowns 'not justified' in coronavirus outbreak

    ByStaff Editor Posted on2020-03-222022-12-18

    MARCH 21, 2020 Rina Chandran, Emeline Wuilbercq BANGKOK / ADDIS ABABA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Internet shutdowns cannot be justified at a time when access to information is critical to containing the deadly coronavirus pandemic, human rights groups have warned. The outbreak has infected more than 245,000 people worldwide and the death toll now exceeds…

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    SPECIAL EDITION: FAILED POLITICS AND DECEPTION: BEHIND THE CRISIS IN WESTERN AND SOUTHERN OROMIA

    ByStaff Editor Posted on2020-03-212022-12-18
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    Source: https://addisstandard.com/special-edition-failed-politics-and-deception-behind-the-crisis-in-western-and-southern-oromia/ BY ZECHARIAS ZELALEM @ZEKUZELALEM March 20/2020 – Dozens of unarmed civilians have been shot dead by Ethiopian army soldiers operating in the Qellem Wollega district of the Oromia State over the course of the past five weeks. Estimates are that since January 20th, over a hundred others have fled their homes for the…

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    OROMO QUESTION NEVER RETIRES WITHOUT RESPONSE

    ByStaff Editor Posted on2020-03-202022-12-18
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    Organized Oromo liberation movement started in the 60s because Habashaarulers that built Nafxanyaa colonial system refused to give attention to peacefully presented Oromo questions. African countries they had fallen with started to be free around the same time after 75 years. Oromo struggle continued until they were listened to in 1991. It has still to…

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    Onslaught in Oromia: A hidden war threatens Ethiopia’s transition to democracy

    ByStaff Editor Posted on2020-03-202022-12-18
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    Abiy Ahmed’s crackdown in Oromia is bloody and lawless Source: https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/03/19/a-hidden-war-threatens-ethiopias-transition-to-democracy Middle East and Africa Mar 19th 2020 edition NEKEMTE In the corner of a restaurant in Nekemte, a town in western Ethiopia, Fisaha Aberra unfolds a piece of paper on which he has scrawled the names of 11 men he says were shot by…

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    Blood on the Nile is what's coming if Egypt and Ethiopia continue their war of words over water

    ByStaff Editor Posted on2020-03-102022-12-18

    THE INDEPENDENT Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/egypt-nile-war-water-ethiopia-clash-dam-trump-a9390271.html By Ahmed Aboudouh 10 March 2020 Blood on the Nile is what’s coming if Egypt and Ethiopia continue their war of words over water: Donald Trump can actually help mediate the dispute before it escalates into violence Boats dock along the Nile River shoreline in Luxor ( Getty Images ) The…

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    Ethiopia's Abiy faces outcry over crackdown on rebels

    ByStaff Editor Posted on2020-02-292022-12-18
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    Source: https://www.france24.com/en/20200229-ethiopia-s-abiy-faces-outcry-over-crackdown-on-rebels Issued on: 29/02/2020 – 05:10Modified: 29/02/2020 – 05:08 Nekemte (Ethiopia) (AFP) Desta Garuma, a 27-year-old rickshaw driver, never showed much interest in politics, so his family has no idea how soldiers concluded he was involved in a rebel movement active in Ethiopia’s Oromia region. But one day in January, five truckloads of soldiers…

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    Ethiopia: Vendor killed, musician injured after police attack opposition supporters in Oromia

    ByStaff Editor Posted on2020-02-172022-12-18

    17 February 2020, 18:42 UTC Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/02/ethiopia-vendor-killed-musician-injured-after-police-attack-opposition-supporters-in-oromia/ Police in Ethiopia launched an attack on opposition party supporters in the Oromia Region on Saturday, killing one person and arresting and injuring scores more. Just hours after the date for Ethiopia’s parliamentary elections was announced, the Oromia Liyu police raided the inauguration of an Oromia Liberation Front…

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    Ethiopia’s naive peacemaking could lead to war

    ByStaff Editor Posted on2020-02-172022-12-18

    OPINION Ethiopia’s naive peacemaking could lead to war by Michael Rubin | February 17, 2020 09:43 AM Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ethiopias-naive-peacemaking-could-lead-to-war Ethiopian Prime Minister Ahmed Abiy is on a high. In October 2019, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize “for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea.” The committee…

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    Drivers of ethnic conflict in contemporary Ethiopia

    ByStaff Editor Posted on2020-01-312022-12-18
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    ISS Drivers of ethnic conflict in contemporary Ethiopia Semir Yusuf Source: https://issafrica.s3.amazonaws.com/site/uploads/mono-202-2.pdf Contents Executive summary ………………………………………………………………………v Introduction……………………………………………………………………………….. 1 Conflict in Ethiopia today …………………………………………………………………3 Chapter 1Institutions shape ethnic relations and cause nationalist antagonisms……………5 Pre-1991 Ethiopia…………………………………………………………………………..5 Post-1991 Ethiopia………………………………………………………………………….6 Chapter 2 Era of political liberalisation and unbridled contending nationalism ………………11 The north ……………………………………………………………………………………11 The west……………………………………………………………………………………..19 Towards the south………………………………………………………………………….20…

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    Amnesty International: Ethiopian authorities crack down on opposition supporters with mass arrests

    ByStaff Editor Posted on2020-01-282022-12-18
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    News: Ethiopia: Authorities crack down on opposition supporters with mass arrests 27 January 2020, 18:52 UTC Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/01/ethiopia-authorities-crack-down-on-opposition-supporters-with-mass-arrests/ Amnesty International has confirmed that at least 75 supporters of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) were arrested over the weekend from various places in different parts of Oromia Regional State, as Ethiopian authorities intensify the crackdown on…

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    Urgent call to UN and international community: Appeal to stop the killings of innocent civilians in Oromia/Ethiopia

    ByStaff Editor Posted on2020-01-222022-12-18

    Urgent call to UN and international communityJanuary 20, 2020 To: The United Nations Security Council Office of the Ombudsperson Room DC2 2206 United Nations New York, NY 10017 United States of America Tel: +1 212 963 2671 E-mail: ombudsperson@un.org Subject: Urgent Appeal to stop the killings of innocent civilians in Oromia/Ethiopia We, the undersigned Oromo…

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    Nobel Peace Prize winner accused: Civilians are murdered and tortured

    ByStaff Editor Posted on2020-01-112022-12-18
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    Source: https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/nobel-peace-prize-winner-accused-civilians-are-murdered-and-tortured/ Publicerad 9 dec 2019 18.33 https://www.expressen.se/tv/nyheter/hear-the-mursi-people-tell-of-torture-and-persecution-by-ethopian-military/ SOUTHERN OMO, ETHIOPIA Ethiopias Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed recieves the Nobel Peace Prize tomorrow in Oslo. But at the same time the security forces of this year’s Nobel Peace laureate are being accused of quietly killing and torturing people from the Mursi, Bodi and Suri tribes in…

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    Double Standards: Ethiopia Must Solve its Internal Displacement Crisis

    ByStaff Editor Posted on2020-01-112022-12-18
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    Source: The Global Post https://theglobepost.com/2020/01/09/ethiopia-idps-refugees/ by Nikita Taniparti January 9, 2020 in Opinion People gather for a food distribution at the Farbudo internally displaced person camp, in Gode, near Kebri Dahar, southeastern Ethiopia. Photo: Yonas Tadesse, AFP June 2019. The spacious lobby of the Hilton in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa was unusually brimming with confused…

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    Oromo Communities’ Association of North America (OCA-NA) supports Qeerroo

    ByStaff Editor Posted on2019-12-232022-12-18

    Oromo Communities’ Association of North America 6212 3rd St NW, Washington, DC 20011 December 10, 2019 We, members of the Oromo Communities’ Association of North America (OCA-NA), an umbrella organization of Oromo communities in the United States, strongly condemn the provocative and divisive campaigns by the so-called Baladera (Balderas) group and its supporters against the…

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    Ethiopia's Oromo celebrate festival in Addis amid tight security

    ByStaff Editor Posted on2019-10-062022-12-18
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    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…

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    Ethiopia’s leader warns plotters following coup attempt

    ByStaff Editor Posted on2019-07-022022-12-18
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    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…

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