- Getachew Reda and the Corrosive Politics of Ethiopia 2025-11-26 @ 0:00 Getachew Reda’s dramatic shift—from accusing Abiy Ahmed of genocide in Tigray to serving within his administration and now failing to acknowledge his own words—exposes the moral decay embedded in Ethiopian politics. His reversal is not subtle; it is documented and… 🡺 continue reading
- Why Abiy Ahmed and the Ethiopian Federal Regime Still Reluctant to Declare Amhara Fano a Terrorist Organization? 2025-10-24 @ 0:00 Why has Abiy Ahmed’s regime never declared Amhara Fano a terrorist organization while branding the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) without sufficient evidence? This is not hypocrisy—it is moral perversion. Amhara Fano’s massacres across Oromia are met with silence, exposing a… 🡺 continue reading
- The Noonnoo Massacre: A Shame That Stains Oromia and Ethiopia Alike 2025-10-20 @ 0:00 The Noonnoo massacre has once again exposed the moral decay within Oromia’s political leadership and Ethiopia’s federal establishment. When 27 innocent lives — mostly children and the elderly — are slaughtered, yet no voice of outrage rises from those sworn… 🡺 continue reading
- Which Is True? The PP Regime’s “Ascent to Prosperity” — or the World Bank’s “Descent into Poverty”? 2025-10-16 @ 0:00 The Prosperity Party’s “ascent to prosperity” slogan collapses under the weight of World Bank data showing Ethiopia’s poverty rate rising from 33% in 2016 to 39% in 2021 — and projected to hit 43% by 2025. Far from climbing, the… 🡺 continue reading
- The Real Invasion: Setting the Record Straight on Irreechaa in Finfinnee 2025-10-05 @ 0:00 When Amhara journalist Mesay Mekonnen called the Oromo people’s Irreechaa celebration in Finfinnee an “invasion,” he inverted history itself. Finfinnee was founded through the blood of Tuulama Oromos — victims of the real invasion under Menelik II’s empire. To call… 🡺 continue reading
- Much Ado About Irreechaa: Psychology Behind the Criticism of Oromo Thanksgiving 2025-09-30 @ 0:00 Irreechaa is not a religion—just as American Thanksgiving is not. It is a thanksgiving rooted in Oromo tradition yet embraced across faiths and nations. Critics, some even using AI to caricature Oromos, miss the joy, colour, and harmony it embodies.… 🡺 continue reading
- The Happy Tears of One, the Anguished Tears of Thousands 2025-09-12 @ 16:26 Ethiopia today elevates the happy tears of an autocratic ruler above the anguished tears of thousands. As Oromia bleeds from years of massacres, displacement, and proxy wars, state media buries the truth — while in grotesque contrast, the ruler’s tears… 🡺 continue reading
- The Happy Tears of One, the Anguished Tears of Thousands 2025-09-09 @ 18:00 Ethiopia today elevates the happy tears of an autocratic ruler above the anguished tears of thousands. As Oromia bleeds from years of massacres, displacement, and proxy wars, state media buries the truth — while in grotesque contrast, the ruler’s tears… 🡺 continue reading
- Shabo Media's Masterclass Via Interview: Borana Elders' Wisdom Where Leaders Stay Silent 2025-09-02 @ 0:00 When leaders fall silent, elders rise. Shabo Media’s latest 105-minute interview with Borana elders is nothing short of a governance masterclass—clear, dignified, and unflinching. It tackles border grabs, unlawful killings, and Oromia’s bleeding wounds with a wisdom that dwarfs even… 🡺 continue reading
- A Time Bomb Buried in Oromia and Somali Region 2025-08-27 @ 0:00 The Prosperity Party regime of Ethiopia is playing a reckless game, redrawing boundaries and fuelling discord between Oromo and Somali peoples. History teaches us that injustice planted today never stays buried—it grows into resistance. Only the wisdom of brotherly nations,… 🡺 continue reading
- The Sinister Dirty Game of the PP Regime with Moyale 2025-08-05 @ 0:00 The Moyale annexation saga is no accident — it is the latest chapter in the OPDO/PP regime’s betrayal of Oromia. While the Somali parliament claims Oromo land, Abiy Ahmed and Shimelis Abdissa remain shamefully silent. From orchestrated ethnic tension to… 🡺 continue reading
- What the Oromo Dialogue Online Tells Us About Missed Opportunities, Unity, and the Fight for Identity 2025-07-20 @ 0:00 The Oromo Dialogue held online yesterday [Saturday, 19 July] exposed deep cracks in strategy and unity, highlighting how obvious solutions—like backing the OLA—were sidelined. As Oromo identity erasure intensifies under the current regime, the Oromo Discussion must mark a turning… 🡺 continue reading
- Parliament’s Deafening Silence—Again: An Update 2025-07-03 @ 12:00 Coincidentally, today marked the 42nd Regular Session of the House of Representatives (HoR) of the Ethiopian Parliament—a moment that could have restored a fragment of public trust. The Prime Minister himself was in attendance, taking the floor for what was… 🡺 continue reading
- Parliamentary Silence and Collective Cowardice: Shame on Ethiopia’s Parliament and Caffee Oromia for Enabling Atrocity 2025-07-02 @ 0:00 Obbo Taye Danda’a’s explosive revelations of war crimes, extrajudicial killings, and state-orchestrated atrocities demanded immediate action. Yet the loudest response was parliamentary silence. Neither Caffee Oromia nor the Federal Parliament uttered a word. In a functioning democracy, such truths would… 🡺 continue reading
- What Is Humanity If Even the Faarseebulaas Mock the Truth? 2025-06-29 @ 0:00 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… 🡺 continue reading
- Daniel Kibret’s Delusional Word Games for Unitarism 2025-06-16 @ 21:00 Daniel Kibret, the Prosperity Party’s unofficial wordsmith and controversial advisor, is once again at the center of a linguistic smokescreen. His latest catchphrase, ሕብረ ብሔራዊ—translated as Multi-National or Co-National—is a rhetorical tool designed to mask the regime’s assault on Multinational… 🡺 continue reading
- The Fearless Obbo Taye Danda'a Arado Intervews 2025-06-15 @ 15:00 The Obbo Taye Danda'a Aredo interviews offer a rare, unfiltered look into the inner workings of Ethiopia’s federal government and the Oromia regional administration. From personal persecution to state-sanctioned cruelty, Obbo Taye’s revelations expose chilling truths about power, war, and… 🡺 continue reading
- Sleepwalking into the Tyranny of Geography 2025-06-13 @ 0:00 Ethiopia is sleepwalking into a terminal fracture. The death of Multinational Federalism isn't just a political misstep—it is the undoing of a hard-won peace among diverse nations. This is not alarmism. It is a wake-up call to citizens and politicians… 🡺 continue reading
- Jimma University Owes the Public an Apology 2025-06-09 @ 0:00 This rebuttal challenges the grossly biased and inflammatory article authored by Mr. Girma A. Demeke of Jimma University, which is scheduled for publication in the Journal of African and Asian Studies (JAAL), Volume 14, Issue 2. Masquerading as scholarly analysis,… 🡺 continue reading
- The Death of Federalism by Agenda 2025-06-06 @ 15:00 Federalism in Ethiopia is under existential threat. What was once a constitutional promise of self-rule and cultural dignity is now being dismantled under the guise of reform. The regime’s recent agenda, advanced through a highly questionable commission, signals a retreat… 🡺 continue reading
- June is Hacaaluu's Month 2025-06-01 @ 0:01 In recognition of his enduring legacy, OROMIA TODAY solemnly declares this month of June as Hacaaluu’s Month. 🡺 continue reading
- Hacaaluu Hundeessa: A Loss That Shook the Soul of a Nation 2025-06-01 @ 0:00 Hacaaluu Hundeessa was not merely a musician. He was a living embodiment of Oromo hope and pride. Through his songs, he articulated the unspoken grief of generations, gave rhythm to the resistance, and sang dignity into identity. His artistry was… 🡺 continue reading
- The Habesha Axis and the Horn's Tipping Point 2025-05-29 @ 0:00 The emerging Habesha Axis—an uneasy alignment of Amhara, Tigray, and Eritrean elites—reveals a deeper truth: historic rivals will unite to suppress Oromo political empowerment. Despite decades of hostility, these actors find common cause in opposing self-determination for Oromia. This convergence… 🡺 continue reading
- Amhara Fano's Expansionist Vein Disguised as Peace 2025-05-28 @ 0:00 Amhara Fano’s response to the U.S. call for negotiation reveals an expansionist agenda cloaked in grievance. Their demand to “return” disputed regions like Wolkait and Raya signals territorial revisionism. In contrast, the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) emphasizes accountability and genuine… 🡺 continue reading
- Assert Your Rights – Stand Tall or Be Trampled 2025-05-27 @ 0:00 You were not born to be bowed. You were born to rise. In politics, society, and your own mind—never let anyone write your story in your silence. Assert your rights boldly, for the dignity of your people and the clarity… 🡺 continue reading
- A Cry for Justice: Save Oromo Refugees Trapped in Saudi Detention 2025-05-25 @ 8:00 Oromo refugees in Saudi Arabia are enduring appalling conditions—crammed in overcrowded cells, denied proper food, medicine, and justice. Most are victims of human trafficking, not criminals. Some now face execution on fabricated charges, while the Ethiopian embassy remains shamefully silent.… 🡺 continue reading
- The Abject Poverty of the Indigenous Oromo 2025-05-24 @ 0:00 The Indigenous Oromo remain deeply impoverished despite living on some of the most fertile land in Ethiopia. This article unpacks how systemic exclusion, political betrayal, and false narratives like “Baale Giize” continue to marginalize the Indigenous Oromo while others prosper… 🡺 continue reading
- When Public Funds Become Private Fortunes: Why Misusing Public Money Must Be a High Crime 2025-05-20 @ 0:00 While millions of Ethiopians suffer without basic services, the regime's ruling elite continue to exploit public funds as if they were private fortunes. Lavish lifestyles, overseas treatments, fleets of gas-guzzling SUVs — all financed at the people's expense. This article… 🡺 continue reading
- How Ethiopia's Regime Is Squandering Billions It Cannot Afford to Cling to Power 2025-05-18 @ 17:00 Excerpt: Ethiopia is now well known for squandering billions on trivial projects while the citizens in millions are hurting. The regime pays cyber trolls more than doctors — perhaps at a ten-to-one ratio — builds palaces while hospitals collapse, and… 🡺 continue reading
- Clapping for Lies in Ethiopian Politics: A Reckoning for Ethiopia's Belly-Politicians 2025-05-17 @ 0:00 Ethiopia’s parliament has become a theatre of false applause, where belly-politicians betray their people by clapping for lies in Ethiopian politics. 🡺 continue reading
- An Open Letter to the Caffee Oromia: Fulfill Your Sacred Mandate 2025-05-15 @ 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
- A Coward's Policy in Oromia: The Maize Ban That Threatens Food Security 2025-05-15 @ 0:00 When maize becomes a threat and feeding your people a crime, governance has failed not only in courage—but in conscience. The senseless maize ban just imposed across Oromia’s Rift Valley belt is yet another tragic episode of hapless leadership—one that… 🡺 continue reading
- 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 people, 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… 🡺 continue reading
- Legal Path to Further Oromo Dispossession? The Oromo People Must Reject the Draft Property Ownership Proclamation 2025-05-02 @ 15:00 Excerpt: A dangerous new draft law in Ethiopia threatens to legalize a deeper level of Oromo dispossession by allowing foreign nationals to own immovable property—including ancestral lands in Oromia. More than just an economic shift, this proposed legislation risks permanently… 🡺 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 Excerpt: Ethiopia cannot achieve true peace without dismantling its imperial framework and embracing a new foundation built on mutual respect and empathy. The current National Dialogue Commission lacks legitimacy, inclusivity, and historical honesty, rendering its mission futile. Real unity cannot… 🡺 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