- Haile Selassie’s Chilling Assimilation Blueprint of 1933 for the Oromo: When ‘Unity’ Meant Erasure 2025-05-07 @ 7:07 Excerpt This article unveils the Chilling Assimilation Blueprint of 1933 for the Oromo, a calculatedly policy framework of Haile Selassie's regime. Drawing from historical documents and translated accounts, it exposes how forced identity erasure was justified in the name of… 🡺 continue reading
- An Open Letter to the Caffee Oromia: Fulfill Your Sacred Mandate 2025-05-05 @ 0:00 An Open Letter to the Caffee Oromia: This is a plea wrapped in pain and principle. As the Oromo people endure loss, disillusionment, and unanswered sacrifices, the silence of their elected house grows louder. This letter calls on Caffee Oromia… 🡺 continue reading
- Legal Path to Further Oromo Dispossession? The Oromo People Must Reject the Draft Property Ownership Proclamation 2025-05-02 @ 15:00 Legal Path to Further Oromo Dispossession? A draft law may hand ancestral lands to foreign tycoons. More than property is at stake—identity, culture, and future hang in the balance. #StopTheDraft #OromoLand #IndigenousRights #LegalPathToOromoDispossession The Oromo People Must Reject the Draft… 🡺 continue reading
- The Oromo People Demand a Prerequisite for the Abbuu Seeraa Airport Project 2025-04-27 @ 0:00 Prefer listening? Play the audio of full article. The Tranquil Indigenous People Before colonization and forced annexation, indigenous peoples thrived across the globe — civilizations, cultures, and ways of life intricately woven with their environments over thousands of years. They… 🡺 continue reading
- Development Draped in Dispossession: The Tragedy Behind the Abuu Seeraa Airport Deal 2025-04-23 @ 0:00 “That is what prosperity looks like,” boasts a Prosperity Party (PP) regime loyalist in his Facebook repost, proudly sharing a photo announcing a $7.8 billion agreement between Ethiopian Airlines and the African Development Bank to build Africa’s largest airport in… 🡺 continue reading
- The Politics of Easter Charity: Propaganda Dressed as Pity 2025-04-19 @ 12:00 The sickening propaganda machine of the Prosperity Party (PP) regime has reached a new low—one that defeats description, but not scrutiny. This Easter weekend, one of the holiest in the Ethiopian calendar, the Mayor of Finfinnee (Addis Ababa) and the… 🡺 continue reading
- When Even Death Commands No Dignity: Ethiopia’s Moral Decay 2025-04-19 @ 0:00 There are moments that sear themselves into the soul—not because of their scale, but because of the depth of their inhumanity. Ethiopia never ceases to amaze—but with inhumanity. We've witnessed people burned alive, skinned while breathing, severed heads paraded on… 🡺 continue reading
- Oromo Martyrs Day 2025 and the Legacy of Oromo Exceptionalism 2025-04-15 @ 0:00 April the 15th This day stands etched in the Oromo conscience as a day of solemn remembrance and unwavering pride. It is a day when time slows down for Oromo communities across the globe to honor the lives of our… 🡺 continue reading
- One Year Without Jaal Battee Urgeessaa: Your Nation Still Grieves, Your People Still Resist 2025-04-10 @ 0:00 A year has passed since we lost one of Oromia’s brightest sons, Jaal Battee Urgeessaa—an icon of peaceful resistance, a visionary political leader, and a man whose gentle strength made him both beloved and formidable. His assassination on this day,… 🡺 continue reading
- A Civic Lesson Disguised as an Interview: Understanding Oromophobia Through the EBS Controversy and Shabo Media’s Insightful Dialogue 2025-03-29 @ 0:01 It is rarely the case that interviews transcend their usual form and qualify as effective lecture material in civic education. Yet the interview of Aaddee Samihaa Osmaan on Shabo Media last night, conducted by the ever-charismatic Gaammee Galgaloo, focusing on… 🡺 continue reading
- The Death of Qanani Adunya and a Microcosm of Ethiopia’s Deep-Rooted Supremacist Mindset 2025-03-20 @ 12:00 Please Watch the Video Clip (81 sec) That Prompted this Editorial Before Proceeding. Thank You. The Tragic Death of a Young Artist The tragic death of young Oromo artist Qanani Adunya should have been a moment of collective mourning—a time… 🡺 continue reading
- Decoding Prosperity Party Regime’s Farcical Four-Day Meeting on Oromia 2025-02-23 @ 11:58 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… 🡺 continue reading
- Why the Oromia Opposition Parties Never Ever Learn 2025-02-19 @ 12:00 A famous intelligent person once said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” That is precisely the dilemma Ethiopian opposition groups and liberation fronts find themselves in today. Despite repeated betrayals, failed negotiations,… 🡺 continue reading
- How Far We’ve Come: And the Advesary Does Not Care to Know It 2025-02-16 @ 0:01 I am looking at a picture of two young girls—perhaps in their late teens or early twenties. Their beauty is undeniable, yet it is not the kind of beauty that comes from youth alone. It is the beauty of conviction,… 🡺 continue reading
- When Hundreds of Thousands Equal Zero 2025-02-09 @ 0:01 "Believe it or not, we did not torture a single person." These were the words spoken by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister just days ago. A bold statement. A lie so audacious, so detached from reality, that it serves as the mother… 🡺 continue reading
- The Oromo – An Egalitarian Nation Whose Culture Defines Freedom, Justice, and Peace. 2025-02-08 @ 10:11 The Oromo's journey reflects the universal struggle for freedom and equality. From resisting colonial subjugation to fostering a democratic renaissance through Gadaa and Oromummaa, their story is a testament to the enduring power of collective identity and the pursuit of… 🡺 continue reading
- To the Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission: You Are Wasting Your Time and Everyone Else’s 2025-01-31 @ 11:00 Introduction As things currently stand, there can be no genuine dialogue, no meaningful discussion, and certainly no real negotiation within the Ethiopian empire. This entity, by its very nature, is inherently resistant to peace-making, for it was designed to subjugate… 🡺 continue reading
- Abiy and Lamma: The Ultimate Betrayal – A Modern Cain and Abel Story 2025-01-30 @ 9:00 The human thirst for power knows no bounds. Again and again, history and fiction remind us that when power is at stake, no bond—whether of blood, ideology, or brotherhood—is sacred. The annals of history are littered with betrayals that make… 🡺 continue reading
- Armed Struggle Is the Only Path to Emancipation for the Oromo People 2025-01-18 @ 0:01 The last six years of Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party (PP) government have made one thing unmistakably clear—not just to core Oromo nationalists who have long recognized the Ethiopian regime's aversion to genuine peace, but also to the doubters. The oppressive… 🡺 continue reading
- Remembering our Heroines and Heroes 2023-04-15 @ 0:01 In Dedication to Our Hero Jaal Damissee K. Sardaa (1945-2023) April is a month when Oromo communities all over the world remember their heroines and heroes (hereafter 'heroes'). Particularly, 15th April has a special place in the Oromo struggle for… 🡺 continue reading
- Oromia’s Endemic Corruption is Set to Impoverish the Already Poor Farmers 2023-01-20 @ 16:47 read this article with audio player Although no official region-based corruption index for comparison exists, based on the general sentiments of public outcry, Oromia is one of the most corrupt regions of Ethiopia, if not at the top of the… 🡺 continue reading
- Colonel Abiy Ahmed Follows Suit of His Role Models in Appointing a War Committee of Amharas to Meddle in Oromia Affairs 2022-12-17 @ 18:31 — OROMIA TODAY EDITORIAL The audacity is jaw dropping, the miscalculation is mind boggling; the insensitivity will only hasten the end of an empire that is already in tatters. Yes, colonel Abiy Ahmed, PM of Ethiopia, just followed in the… 🡺 continue reading
- Oromia: Abiy’s War of Attrition and the Oromo National Struggle 2021-06-29 @ 14:39 By: Itana Gammada, June 29, 2021 A people under colonial occupation have a maximum of two choices, either stand up and fight for their freedom and dignity or accept humiliation, subjugation, victimization and perpetual slavery. Throughout human history, colonialism has… 🡺 continue reading
- Ethiopia’s vicious deadlock 2021-04-28 @ 4:55 Ethiopia's vicious deadlock 27 April, 2021 by René Lefort The much-hyped democratic transition is not only dead but buried deep. It would need a miracle to exhume it in the near future. Last year, Tigray's leaders underestimated their weaknesses. The… 🡺 continue reading
- Democracy imperiled in Africa by ‘reformers’ turned dictators 2020-06-12 @ 18:17 OPINION by Michael Rubin | June 11, 2020 05:41 PM It is often forgotten that the worst dictators are often, early in their careers, lauded as reformers. In Iraq, Saddam Hussein was initially embraced as a “pragmatist” by diplomats and… 🡺 continue reading
- To Heal, Ethiopia Needs to Confront its Violent Past 2020-05-30 @ 8:16 Laetitia Bader Senior Researcher, Africa Division Click to expand Image Visitors view photos of victims of the Derg regime in Ethiopia's Red Terror Martyrs' Memorial Museum in Addis Ababa on March 4, 2014. © 2014 Eitan Simanor/Alamy Stock Photo. “I… 🡺 continue reading
- Ethiopia’s security forces accused of torture, evictions and killings – report 2020-05-29 @ 18:42 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/may/29/ethiopias-security-forces-accused-of-torture-evictions-and-killings-report Prime minister Abiy Ahmed has been lauded for his democratic reforms. But Amnesty International are now urging him to investigate allegations of serious human rights abuses Tom Gardner in Addis Ababa Fri 29 May 2020 15.15 AEST A man… 🡺 continue reading
- Remembering our Heroes and Heroines 2016-04-15 @ 0:01 April is a month when Oromo communities all over the world remember their heroes and heroines (henceforth heroes). Particularly, 15th April has a special place in the Oromo struggle for freedom. It is on this particular day, in 1980, that… 🡺 continue reading
- Editorial 2016-03-04 @ 10:01 Remembering our Heroes and Heroines April is a month when Oromo communities all over the world remember their heroes and heroines (henceforth heroes). Particularly, 15th April has a special place in the Oromo struggle for freedom. It is on this… 🡺 continue reading