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Erasing Oromia: How a Fringe Party Exposed the Complacency and Paralysis of Oppressed Nations and Nationalities of the Ethiopian Empire
By Elemoo Qilxuu (MA, Political Science) and Olii Boran (PhD, Sociology) Posted on2025-12-072025-12-06

A fringe party’s audacious proposal to erase Oromia and other regions of the oppressed nations and nationalities has exposed a deeper crisis: the entrenched complacency and political paralysis of the majority. This is not merely the aggression of a fringe party attempting to erase Oromia and other regions; it is the predictable outcome of a majority conditioned to tolerate the intolerable. Ethiopia’s tragedy persists because boldness from the few meets silence from the many.

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Getachew Reda and the Corrosive Politics of Ethiopia
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-11-262025-11-25

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 undeniable. It reflects a system where truth is punished, dishonesty is rewarded, and individuals reshape their convictions to survive. Yet agency remains: integrity is never impossible, only costly. History will remember not the titles he held, but the truths he abandoned.

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Why Oromia’s Future Demands Clarity: Independence vs. “Democritizing Ethiopia”
By Yadessa Guma (PhD, Anthropology) Posted on2025-11-242025-11-24

This article examines the evolving debate over Oromo self-determination any time soon, contrasting the independence path with the argument for democratizing Ethiopia’s federation. Grounded in constitutional analysis, human rights reporting, security trends, and long-term governance patterns, it evaluates which option aligns with the lived realities in Oromia today. The evidence increasingly challenges assumptions about a reformable Ethiopian state, raising critical questions about whether a monitored Article 39 referendum is now the most credible way to resolve the Oromo self-determination question.

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Tribute to Professor Hamdessa Tuso
By OROMIA TODAY Board and Staff Members Posted on2025-11-23

Professor Hamdessa Tuso, a pioneering educator, scholar, and advocate for Oromo unity, dedicated his life to awakening, empowering, and uplifting his people. From the Arsi Basic School movement to global academic platforms, he championed Oromo identity, indigenous knowledge, and youth empowerment. His scholarship, activism, and mediation efforts shaped generations and strengthened the Oromo struggle for justice. Though he has passed, his legacy remains a guiding light for Oromia’s future.

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The Politics of Spite—How Oromia’s Foundations Expose the Empty Ambitions of a Troubled Region
By Elemoo Qilxuu, Kumaa Daadhii and Olii Boran Posted on2025-11-122025-11-09

Oromia now faces a widening expansionist push—driven by local opportunists, reinforced by external actors, and carried along by a region long caught up in the politics of spite that has defined the Horn. These forces promote territorial fantasies that collapse under scrutiny. The article argues that only a free, self-determined Oromia can break this cycle, restoring stability to the Horn and creating the conditions for a genuine synergy of prosperity with its neighbors.

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When Power Fears Light: The Parable of an Empire Half-Blind
By Olii Boran (PhD, Sociology) Posted on2025-11-062025-11-03

Ethiopia’s empire survived not through shared prosperity but through a half-blind fear of equality. Like the parable of rulers who preferred to lose one eye just to blind their people twice over, it clung to domination instead of development, coercion instead of consent. A century of brilliance was wasted on internal siege rather than nation-building. Yet a different future is possible — one built on voluntary partnership, equal dignity, and the courage to imagine freedom beyond imperial habit.

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Peaceful Divorce, Shared FutureHow voluntary sovereignty + economic interdependence could turn Ethiopia’s zero-sum politics into shared prosperity.
By Yadessa Guma (PhD, Anthropology) Posted on2025-11-042025-11-03
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Ethiopia’s century-long attempt to centralize diverse nations has produced recurring conflict, mistrust, and economic stagnation. A peaceful, lawful divorce — followed by a rules-based common economic area — offers a path to turn zero-sum politics into shared prosperity. Article 39 provides the consent mechanism; AfCFTA/IGAD/COMESA/EAC offer ready economic scaffolding. If one flag cannot deliver peace and dignity, multiple flags cooperating through open markets and guaranteed corridors may finally do

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When Dirre Dhawa Becomes a Claim — And Truth Becomes a Weapon
By Elemoo Qilxuu (MA, Political Science) Posted on2025-11-042025-11-04

A recent viral clip shows a young Somali man boldly claiming Dirre Dhawa as Somali land — a moment that might seem laughable if it didn’t reflect a deeper anxiety and the politics of manufactured bravado. His claim coincides with PM Abiy Ahmed’s sudden “truth-telling” about Dirre Dhawa’s constitutional limbo — a convenient revelation used to frame Ethiopia’s port hunger and revive irredentist narratives disguised as historical correction.

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Why Abiy Ahmed and the Ethiopian Federal Regime Still Reluctant to Declare Amhara Fano a Terrorist Organization?
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-10-242025-10-24

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 regime that outsources genocide by proxy and hides behind the camouflage of selective justice and political convenience.

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The Noonnoo Massacre: A Shame That Stains Oromia and Ethiopia Alike
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-10-202025-10-21
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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 to defend the people, silence becomes complicity. The tragedy is not just the massacre itself, but the cancerous indifference of leaders who have traded conscience for comfort and turned Oromia’s pain into background noise.

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Which Is True? The PP Regime’s “Ascent to Prosperity” — or the World Bank’s “Descent into Poverty”?
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-10-162025-10-16

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 country is sinking deeper into deprivation, with over 67% of citizens multidimensionally poor. The regime’s recent “credit cap” gimmick and nuclear-energy fantasies expose its confusion — a delusion of progress masking a painful descent into poverty.

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When Credit Capping Hits 24% — and Logic Hits Zero
By Editorial Team Posted on2025-10-14

Correction: The 24% Figure Explained — and Why the Problem Remains the Same.
The much-circulated 24% was not Ethiopia’s lending rate but the annual cap on credit expansion — the ceiling on how much new money banks can lend each year. Yet this technical correction changes little: whether through suffocating interest rates or restrictive credit policy, Ethiopia’s banking system remains trapped in a cycle that starves growth while serving debt.

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Math Meets PP Regime Myth: Prosperity at 18-20% or More Interest Rate
By Editorial Team Posted on2025-10-122025-10-12

This fourth installment in the Math Meets PP Regime Myth series examines Ethiopia’s record-shattering bank interest rate — a feat only the Prosperity Party regime could frame as progress. In the land of sanity, interest rates hover around 1–2%, allowing businesses to borrow, grow, and reinvest. Ethiopia now faces 24% interest rate. For small and medium enterprises operating on 5–10% margins, this is not financing but strangulation. When credit costs more than profit, business shifts from value creation to sheer survival — and the economy itself begins to suffocate.

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Irreechaa as Ritual Repair: How Oromo Thanksgiving Supports National Healing—And Why It Draws Contestation
By Yadessa Guma (PhD, Anthropology) Posted on2025-10-122025-10-12

Irreechaa—the Oromo thanksgiving held at sacred waters like Hora Arsadii (Bishoftu) and Hora Finfinnee—does far more than mark seasonal change. Read through the lens of colonial/historical trauma and its inter-generational transmission, Irreechaa functions as cultural therapy: a cyclical, collective practice that restores dignity, cohesion, and hope after generations of political marginalization. The same symbolic power makes it a lightning rod for control and contestation by state security forces and rival national projects seeking to limit Oromo visibility in shared civic space.

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When A Foreign Scholar Trips Over Authoritarian PoliticsA Red Alert on Foreign Commentaries about Ethiopia’s National Dialogue and Unity
By Roobaa Hawaas (MA, Psychology) Posted on2025-10-102025-10-10

A recent 'The Conversation' article by a foreign scholar lauds Ethiopia’s new dam and National Dialogue as signs of national unity. Yet beneath its polished tone lies a troubling detachment from Ethiopia’s lived realities. When foreign scholars echo autocratic narratives, they lend legitimacy to repression. Academic distance must not become moral distance — especially in a land scarred by stormy landscapes and rifted terrains of conflict, exclusion, and historical injustice.

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The Compendium of Ignorance: Anatomy of Amhara Pseudo-Elite Stereotypes Against the Oromo
By Elemoo Qilxuu Posted on2025-10-092025-10-09

Ignorance, when disguised as intellect, has long shaped Ethiopia’s moral decay. This compendium exposes how Amhara pseudo-elites turned mockery of Oromo language, names, and heritage into a badge of honour. Through evidence, reflection, and irony, it reveals that ignorance is not mere absence of knowledge — it is the arrogance that resists enlightenment.

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