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The Final Goal of Fano Led-Amhara Elites and the Resistances They May Face
ByLeemman Leeqaa Posted on2025-09-182025-09-18

Introduction The ultimate objective of the Amhara political elite appears to be the restoration of a centralized, unitary Ethiopian state, effectively dismantling the current multinational federal arrangement and overturning the existing constitution. However, this vision is neither straightforward nor uncontested. Contrary to this centralist ambition, the diverse nations, nationalities, and peoples within the Ethiopian empire…

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10 Compelling Reasons Shimelis Abdissa Is Not Effectively Governing Oromia
ByEditorial Team Posted on2025-07-302025-07-29
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Shimelis Abdissa, nominally President of Oromia, has become emblematic of absentee leadership and quiet complicity in the face of tragedy, dispossession, and systemic betrayal. From his silence during national mourning to his role in dismantling Oromia’s autonomy and impoverishing its people, Shimelis serves not the Oromo nation but the pro unitary Ethiopia Prosperity Party (PP) regime. While we could come up with scores of reasons, for brevity and to get this to print, we chose 10 items that speak volumes.

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Opinion | Politics

The Idea of Oromia Shall Never Be Extinguished
ByYadessa Guma Posted on2025-07-122025-07-12

The idea of Oromia is more than a place—it’s a vision of justice, dignity, and identity. Despite repression and new threats cloaked in legality, this enduring ideal lives on in Oromo resistance, culture, and memory. Now more than ever, Oromia must be defended, revived, and reimagined for the future it promises.

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The Gentleperson Code: Part II—When the Moral Compass Shatters
ByMalkkaa Beenyaa, MA (Social Psychologist) Posted on2025-07-082025-07-07

This is Part II of The Gentleperson Code, continuing from Part I—A Cross-Cultural Compass for Modern Dignity. In this installment, we examine how leadership failures, social media, and shifting community values have shattered society’s moral compass. From the quiet erosion of ethical standards to the public normalization of corruption, this piece explores why moral clarity matters—and what’s at stake when it fades.

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The Gentleperson Code: Part I—A Cross-Cultural Compass for Modern Dignity
ByOlii Boran Posted on2025-07-072025-07-07
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Excerpt Across cultures, the gentleperson embodies timeless virtues: respect, integrity, empathy, and self-restraint. More than a gendered label or social rank, a gentleperson is a moral compass in action—graceful under pressure, humble yet firm, protective of others. In today’s noisy world, this quiet strength offers a powerful model of dignity and ethical leadership. The Rise…

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Let the River Flow: How the GERD Dams Colonial Hegemony, Not the Nile
ByTullu Waqjira, Caalaa Dabalee, et al. Posted on2025-07-052025-07-05

The GERD is not obstructing the Nile—it’s obstructing injustice. Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam harnesses the river’s flow for energy, not for control. Yet Egypt resists, clinging to colonial-era water dominance. This article unpacks why GERD symbolizes not just a dam, but a turning point in Africa’s struggle for equitable resource sovereignty.

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Opinion

Ethiopia's Elites Crisis: Fragmentation, Failure, and the Path to Relevance
ByAbba Sooqee Posted on2025-06-302025-06-30
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Ethiopia’s elites crisis runs deeper than disunity—it is a collapse of legitimacy. Fragmented, distrusted, and internally divided, no elite figure today commands a unified mandate. Peace will remain a mirage until the elites reconcile with their own constituencies and confront the vertical fractures within. Without grassroots credibility, national dialogue is empty performance—and irrelevance is the best they can hope for.

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What Is Humanity If Even the Faarseebulaas Mock the Truth?
ByKumaa Daadhii Posted on2025-06-292025-06-29

Empires and regimes fall. Tyrants vanish. And when the reckoning comes, Betelhem Tafese and the Faarseebulaas will face the truth they mocked. Will they eat back the contemptuous lies they vomit today against the truth-tellers, freedom fighters, and human rights activists? No regime built on deception, gaslighting, and blood can last — especially one that feeds starving people fairy tales and street-light shows.

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Commentary | Opinion | Politics

The Amhara Elite Racist Worldview: Collective Unconscious and Historical Hegemony
ByTuraa Jaarsoo Posted on2025-06-272025-06-27

Excerpt This article examines the enduring racist worldview propagated by sections of the Amhara political elite in Ethiopia, with specific reference to a recent video conference led by Professor Getachew Begashaw. It explores how dehumanizing ethnic slurs, territorial revisionism, and historical denialism reflect a psychological phenomenon best understood through Carl Jung’s concept of the Collective…

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Safuu Is Not Lost—It Was Never Yours to Lose
ByKumaa Daadhii Posted on2025-06-122025-06-11

Safuu—the Oromo moral compass—demands dignity and restraint, not ethnic appropriation. The uproar over beauty queen Hasset Dereje reveals a deeper sickness: the need to monopolize excellence. When Oromo silence is mistaken for indifference, remember—it’s Safuu, not passivity. A society that forgets Safuu trades wisdom for noise, and unity for vanity. Safuu still matters.

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Opinion | Politics

Jawar Mohammed: From Oromo Icon to PP Sympathizer?
ByAbbaa Gaatoo Posted on2025-04-292025-04-29

Preview: A Revolutionary Spirit in Question Once the fearless voice of Oromo freedom, now sounding like a Prosperity Party (PP) loyalist? Jawar Mohammed’s latest interview on Kush Media Network (KMN) left many shocked — and some wondering: Has the revolutionary spirit faded, or is there a bigger game at play? Read below the full reflection…

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When Lawmakers Fan Dangerous Flames: The Case of Dr Sisay Mengiste
ByOlii Boran Posted on2025-04-182025-04-18

Questions for Troubling Rhetoric Where does freedom of speech end, and the incitement of dangerous, ethnically charged propaganda begin? At what point does public discourse shift from a right to speak one’s mind into a reckless abuse of influence—especially when the speaker holds public office in a fragile, multi-ethnic society? These are not abstract questions….

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When Language Colonizes: The Amharic Illusion of Progress
ByKumaa Daadhii Posted on2025-04-132025-04-13

When Language Colonizes In the landscape of African colonization, one recurring justification for conquest and domination has been the civilizing mission—carried out not just through force, but through language. From the French mission civilisatrice to the British insistence on “English education,” colonizers offered language as a “gift”—while using it as a tool of control. In…

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A New Abyssinian Alliance in the Making and What it Means for Oromia
ByOlii Boran Posted on2025-03-192025-03-19

Excerpt: The crisis of Oromia can be summed up in a single, stark sentence: Oromia’s greatest hazard is its own wealth. The sheer abundance of its resources has drawn in competing forces, each vying for control. This relentless scramble has made the realization of Oromia’s self-determination—a cause championed for decades—an even more daunting challenge. Today,…

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Civility Costs Nothing, Obbo Hailu Adunya
ByStaff Editor Posted on2025-02-262025-04-15

Public office is not a playground for personal arrogance, nor is it a stage for hurling insults at those with differing perspectives. It is, above all, a responsibility—a duty to conduct oneself with dignity, reason, and respect. Obbo Hailu Adunya, the spokesperson of the Oromia Regional Administration, seems to have missed this fundamental truth in…

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Decoding Prosperity Party Regime's Farcical Four-Day Meeting on Oromia
ByOT Editorial Posted on2025-02-232025-05-13

DISCLAIMER This editorial opinion of OROMIA TODAY has been formulated in consultation with opinion influencers. What Just Happened? Reportedly, delegates representing a broad spectrum of political, civic, and faith-based organizations—16 in total, as stated—convened to deliberate on the political and security situation in Oromia. While the stated purpose was to discuss these pressing issues,…

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