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Ethiopian government accused of deadly air strikes on Oromia region
By Staff Editor Posted on2022-10-282025-01-21
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Source: Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ethiopia-government-accused-deadly-air-strikes-oromiya-region-2022-10-27 Summary: Oromo groups say hundreds killed in air strike No comment from government and army spokespersons Alleged strikes come as Tigray peace talks start NAIROBI, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Two organisations from Ethiopia's Oromia region have accused the army of conducting air strikes there in recent days which they said had killed...
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Oromia: Abiy’s War of Attrition and the Oromo National Struggle
By Staff Editor Posted on2021-06-292025-01-21
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 never been an option. Rather, oppressed people worldwide make the necessary sacrifices to achieve their...
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Ethiopia Votes, But Balloting Will Not Ease the Country’s Deep Crisis
By Staff Editor Posted on2021-06-212022-12-18
Supporters of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed attend his last campaign event ahead of Ethiopia's parliamentary and regional elections scheduled for 21 June in Jimma, Ethiopia, 16 June 2021. REUTERS/Tiksa Neger Q&A / AFRICA 17 JUNE 2021 Ethiopia Votes, But Balloting Will Not Ease the Country's Deep Crisis Elections delayed from 2020 due to COVID-19...
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Human Rights
Ethiopia: Boy Publicly Executed in Oromia
By Staff Editor Posted on2021-06-112022-12-18
Ethiopia: Boy Publicly Executed in Oromia Hold Abusive Officials, Security Forces Accountable Roundabout at site of Amanuel Wondimu's execution on May 11, 2021, in Dembi Dollo town, Oromia, Ethiopia. © Nakoor Malkaa VOA (Nairobi) – Ethiopian government forces summarily executed a 17-year-old boy in Ethiopia's Oromia region in broad daylight, Human Rights Watch said today....
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Abiy Ahmed Has Condemned Ethiopia to Dissolution
By Staff Editor Posted on2021-05-182022-12-18
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May 16, 2021 By choosing unilateralism over negotiation, Abiy may have cemented his legacy not as a Nobel Peace Laureate, but rather as the man who ended a country whose history dates back millennia. by Michael Rubin The war in Ethiopia's Tigray Province is now more than six months old. Jeffrey Feltman, the Biden administration's...
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Ethiopia’s Tigray War Is Fueling Amhara Expansionism
By Staff Editor Posted on2021-05-022025-07-15
Abiy Ahmed depends on the support of ethnic Amhara leaders and militias whose goal is to reconquer what they consider lost territories—from Tigray to Sudan. By Kjetil Tronvoll, an anthropologist and professor at Bjorknes University College in Oslo. Members of the Amhara militia stand in a street while a soldier walks past an imperial Ethiopian...
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Editorial
Ethiopia’s vicious deadlock
By Staff Editor Posted on2021-04-282025-07-15
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 region's security forces were swept away in the conventional conflict and largely unprepared to shift...
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Eighteen killed in clashes between Ethiopia's Oromo, Amhara groups
By Staff Editor Posted on2021-04-232025-07-15
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Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/eighteen-killed-clashes-between-ethiopia-s-oromo-amhara-groups-2021-04-19/ April 20, 20215:18 PM AEST Africa Reuters Clashes between people belonging to Ethiopia's two largest ethnic groups, the Oromo and Amhara, killed at least 18 people late last week, local officials said on Monday, the latest outbreak of violence ahead of national elections in June. Political and ethnic violence has become a major...
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History
OLF and TPLF: Major Issues and Outcomes of a Decade of Negotiations since 1991
By Staff Editor Posted on2021-04-032022-12-18
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Source: From a Presentation by Abiyu Geleta, Oromo Studies Association Conference of 2002 in Washington, DC. I. Introduction This is a brief account of major issues and outcomes of a decade of negotiations between the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and the Tigrean People's Liberation Front (TPLF) since 1991. In those negotiations, there were always third...
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How rescued Ethiopian slaves came to fight for Britain in the Anglo-Boer war
By Staff Editor Posted on2021-01-292022-12-18
Date: 28/01/2021Author: Martin Plaut3 Comments The background to this story is told in a BBC report. A group of Ethiopian slaves were freed by a British warship in 1888 off the coast of Yemen, as they were being taken to the slave markets of Arabia. The freed slaves were then taken round the African coast...
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Oromia: The country at the crossroads of history
By Staff Editor Posted on2021-01-032022-12-18
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By Leenjiso Horo December, 2020 A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots. Marcus Garvey This article is a general summary of the conquest, resistance, and failures, betrayals, and hopes for the future. Along with these, it also points out the lack of political homogeneity...
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'Slaughtered like chickens': Eritrea heavily involved in Tigray conflict, say eyewitnesses
By Staff Editor Posted on2020-12-222022-12-18
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THE GUARDIAN Global development is supported by Guardian staff Mon 21 Dec 2020 18.15 AEDT Conflict and arms 'Slaughtered like chickens': Eritrea heavily involved in Tigray conflict, say eyewitnesses Despite denials by Ethiopia, multiple reports confirm killings, looting and forcible return of refugees by Asmara's forces A hotel damaged by mortar shelling in Humera, in...
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Sudan Will Decide the Outcome of the Ethiopian Civil War
By Staff Editor Posted on2020-11-172022-12-18
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Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/14/sudan-will-decide-outcome-ethiopian-civil-war-abiy-tigray/ DISPATCH Sudan Will Decide the Outcome of the Ethiopian Civil War As Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed goes to war against Ethiopia's former rulers—the Tigray People's Liberation Front—Khartoum's moves will determine whether the conflict remains a local affair or a regional conflagration. BY NIZAR MANEK, MOHAMED KHEIR OMER NOVEMBER 14, 2020, 8:22 AM Members...
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Systemic discrimination against the Oromo people: Politicisation of an Oromo-English dictionary
By Staff Editor Posted on2020-08-022022-12-18
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Curate Ethiopia Insights into Ethiopian Culture Dr. Tilahun Gamta 1st August 2020 Many Oromos wonder how I was able to write and publish The Oromo-English Dictionary (OED) in Ethiopia under Mengistu's regime, a regime that had been openly hostile to the Oromo nation. Here, I offer my reflections on the writing of the work and...
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Family of slain Ethiopian singer mourns their 'hero like a lion'
By Staff Editor Posted on2020-07-242022-12-18
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WORLD NEWS JULY 23, 2020 Dawit Endeshaw AMBO, Ethiopia (Reuters) - The white stone house with a paved floor stands out in the Ethiopian town of Ambo, a poor region where homes are mostly constructed of wood and mud. But the surrounding fence is incomplete - a constant reminder to the elderly inhabitants of their...
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Hachalu Hundessa: 'Eighty-one killed' in protests over Ethiopian singer's death
By Staff Editor Posted on2020-07-022022-12-18
1 July 2020 Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionHachalu's songs focused on the rights of the Oromo ethnic group At least 81 people have been killed in Ethiopia after the death of a popular singer sparked huge protests in the Oromia region, a police chief said. Thousands of fans had gathered to mourn Hachalu Hundessa, who was shot...
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