Source: https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-democracy-threat-ethiopia/ To watch visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoE0ldEhM8I
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 proposed plan would have on…
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 the capital, Addis Ababa, into…
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 new report, Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorism Law:…
Alarmed by the TPLF’s vicious brutality against the people of Oromia, European Parliament conducted unprecedented 28 member states emergency debate on situation in Ethiopia, summoned the Ethiopian foreign minister to Brussels, and issued, yet again its latest resolution (Full Document can be found at: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+MOTION+B8-2016-0121+0+DOC+PDF+V0//EN) However, the question remains will EU sanction the Ethiopian state…
