Source: https://www.france24.com/en/20200229-ethiopia-s-abiy-faces-outcry-over-crackdown-on-rebels Issued on: 29/02/2020 - 05:10Modified: 29/02/2020 - 05:08 Nekemte (Ethiopia) (AFP) Desta Garuma, a 27-year-old rickshaw driver, never showed much interest in politics, so his family has no idea how soldiers concluded he was involved in a rebel movement active in Ethiopia's Oromia region. But one day in January, five truckloads of soldiers...
17 February 2020, 18:42 UTC Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/02/ethiopia-vendor-killed-musician-injured-after-police-attack-opposition-supporters-in-oromia/ Police in Ethiopia launched an attack on opposition party supporters in the Oromia Region on Saturday, killing one person and arresting and injuring scores more. Just hours after the date for Ethiopia's parliamentary elections was announced, the Oromia Liyu police raided the inauguration of an Oromia Liberation Front...
OPINION Ethiopia's naive peacemaking could lead to war by Michael Rubin | February 17, 2020 09:43 AM Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ethiopias-naive-peacemaking-could-lead-to-war Ethiopian Prime Minister Ahmed Abiy is on a high. In October 2019, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize “for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea.” The committee...
ISS Drivers of ethnic conflict in contemporary Ethiopia Semir Yusuf Source: https://issafrica.s3.amazonaws.com/site/uploads/mono-202-2.pdf Contents Executive summary .................................................................................v Introduction............................................................................................ 1 Conflict in Ethiopia today ...........................................................................3 Chapter 1Institutions shape ethnic relations and cause nationalist antagonisms...............5 Pre-1991 Ethiopia......................................................................................5 Post-1991 Ethiopia.....................................................................................6 Chapter 2 Era of political liberalisation and unbridled contending nationalism ..................11 The north ................................................................................................11 The west..................................................................................................19 Towards the south.....................................................................................20...
News: Ethiopia: Authorities crack down on opposition supporters with mass arrests 27 January 2020, 18:52 UTC Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/01/ethiopia-authorities-crack-down-on-opposition-supporters-with-mass-arrests/ Amnesty International has confirmed that at least 75 supporters of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) were arrested over the weekend from various places in different parts of Oromia Regional State, as Ethiopian authorities intensify the crackdown on...
Urgent call to UN and international communityJanuary 20, 2020 To: The United Nations Security Council Office of the Ombudsperson Room DC2 2206 United Nations New York, NY 10017 United States of America Tel: +1 212 963 2671 E-mail: ombudsperson@un.org Subject: Urgent Appeal to stop the killings of innocent civilians in Oromia/Ethiopia We, the undersigned Oromo...
January 12, 2020 Dear Mr. Secretary General, I am writing this letter to you on behalf of the Oromo Studies Association (OSA) out of grave concern about the false accusations made against the Oromo youth – Qeeroo by Mr. Eskinder Negga and Professor Getachew Haile. OSA is an independent international scholarly organization established thirty-five years...
Source: https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/nobel-peace-prize-winner-accused-civilians-are-murdered-and-tortured/ Publicerad 9 dec 2019 18.33 https://www.expressen.se/tv/nyheter/hear-the-mursi-people-tell-of-torture-and-persecution-by-ethopian-military/ SOUTHERN OMO, ETHIOPIA Ethiopias Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed recieves the Nobel Peace Prize tomorrow in Oslo. But at the same time the security forces of this year's Nobel Peace laureate are being accused of quietly killing and torturing people from the Mursi, Bodi and Suri tribes in...
Source: The Global Post https://theglobepost.com/2020/01/09/ethiopia-idps-refugees/ by Nikita Taniparti January 9, 2020 in Opinion People gather for a food distribution at the Farbudo internally displaced person camp, in Gode, near Kebri Dahar, southeastern Ethiopia. Photo: Yonas Tadesse, AFP June 2019. The spacious lobby of the Hilton in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa was unusually brimming with confused...
Oromo Communities' Association of North America 6212 3rd St NW, Washington, DC 20011 December 10, 2019 We, members of the Oromo Communities' Association of North America (OCA-NA), an umbrella organization of Oromo communities in the United States, strongly condemn the provocative and divisive campaigns by the so-called Baladera (Balderas) group and its supporters against the...
Source: https://www.ethiopia-insight.com/2019/12/18/middleman/ Viewpoint Middleman December 18, 2019 by Mebratu Kelecha A prime minister torn between rival camps is increasingly acting in his own interests Viewpoint December 18, 2019 by Mebratu Kelecha On December 10, Ethiopians celebrated an extraordinary moment when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize. It occurred maybe only six months...
By Imiru Itana 16 Dec 2019 It is well known that the Oromo were practising the Gadaa democracy in their land Oromia before falling into the hands of Emperor Menelik II in the second half of the 19th Century. Lack of communication due to the vast Oromo land and the absence of information as to...
November 3, 2019 Dr. Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Office of the Prime Minster P.O. Box 1031 Finfinne, Ethiopia Dear Prime Minster Abiy, Please accept my congratulations on winning the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. I believe the award is not only for what you have done in the past, but it...
5 October 2019 Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49945694 Huge crowds turned out in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, as it hosted for the first time in more than a century the annual Irreecha thanksgiving festival of the Oromo, the country's largest ethnic group. In one Irreecha tradition, freshly cut grass and flowers are placed in water to thank God...
First published August 9, 2018 | by Assefa Tefera Dibaba In the past, on another platform (at OSA Conference, July 2016, Washington DC), I put forward three scenarios for the escalating Oromo civil resistance to bring about a systemic change, and not just a reform: a) If it obtains a degree of support from the...
OCTOBER 5, 2019 / 9:46 PM ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopia's largest ethnic group celebrated in Addis Ababa on Saturday at the start of an annual thanksgiving festival which was marred by violence in 2016. Security was high for Irreecha, which is celebrated by the Oromo people to mark the start...
