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  • Asmerom Legesse
    Tribute | ⏭

    Abbaa Gadaa Professor Asmerom Legesse: A Life Devoted to Oromo Gadaa and African Political Thought

    By OROMIA TODAY Board and Staff Members Posted on2026-02-042026-02-04
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    We mourn the passing of Abbaa Gadaa Professor Asmerom Legesse, the Eritrean scholar whose rigorous work on the Oromo Gadaa system reshaped how the world understands indigenous African governance. Through seminal books including Gadaa: Three Approaches to the Study of African Society (1973) and Oromo Democracy (2000), he framed Gadaa as an Oromo constitutional democratic order with rotating leadership, codified law, and checks and balances. His legacy endures across generations.

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  • PP Regime
    Article | Opinion | Politics | ⏭

    The PP Regime Now Has the Accolade: No Other Ethiopian Regime Has Acted Against the Oromo People So Intensely in Such a Short Time

    By Kumaa Daadhii (PhD, Political History) and Olii Boran (PhD, Sociology) Posted on2026-02-022026-02-01
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    The inauguration of the Shebele Resort near Jijigaa under the PP regime of PM Abiy Ahmed is more than a development event; it is a political statement. Held without Oromo representation in an Oromo city, and amid ongoing violence in eastern Oromia, the ceremony signals the normalization of exclusion and the quiet ratification of a long-contested administrative arrangement. What was once presented as a temporary “loan” of Jijigaa has now hardened into permanent political appropriation, with profound consequences for constitutional order and regional stability.

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  • Aabbuu Seeraa
    Article | Campaign | Human Rights | Politics | ⏭

    Aabbuu Seeraa: Building Progress on Indigenous Erasure

    By OROMIA TODAY Posted on2026-01-302026-01-24

    In Aabbuu Seeraa, thousands of indigenous Oromo families are being displaced to build a flagship airport. Model houses are showcased to project “modernization,” while most households remain without shelter, land, or livelihood—and those who protest face detention. This is not opposition to development; it is a demand for development as a social contract. Minimum conditions are proposed for legitimacy, including housing, livelihood restoration, heritage and environmental protection, demographic sensitivity, perpetual stakeholding, and independent international assessment.

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  • Oromia Administration
    Editorial | Politics | ⏭

    The Oromia Administration: Silence, Not Governance

    By OT Editorial Posted on2026-01-282026-01-28

    The Oromia Administration is conspicuously absent as Oromia faces multi-front aggression, mass dispossession, and deepening corruption. From Somali regional incursions in the east—politically encouraged by president Mustafe Mohammed Omer—to Amhara Fano violence in the west and north east, and forced evictions in central Oromia, silence has become policy. This editorial argues the Oromia Administration is not merely failing, but enabling a proxy-war strategy in which Oromia must be weakened for the Ethiopian empire to endure.

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  • 12 billion
    Editorial | Politics | ⏭

    Math Meets PP Myth No. 5: When 12 Billion Birr GERD Contributions Become Insults

    By OT Editorial Posted on2026-01-232026-01-23

    In this fifth installment of Math Meets PP Myth, the dismissal of 12 billion birr as “insignificant” reveals more than numerical abuse. It exposes a psychology of power that cannot tolerate shared ownership. Leaders secure in legitimacy thank contributors; insecure ones belittle them. Reducing citizens to percentages is not economic analysis—it is political conditioning, preparing the public to accept exclusion, silence, and hierarchy under the guise of math.

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  • Lidetu Ayalew
    Article | Opinion | Politics | ⏭

    Lidetu Ayalew, Finfinnee, Oromia, Federalism, and the Perils of Principle-free Politics

    By Elemoo Qilxuu (MA, Political Science) Posted on2026-01-162026-01-15

    When politics loses its grammar, words stop meaning what they mean and power begins to masquerade as principle. In critiquing Lidetu Ayalew, this piece is not about personal disappointment but about a deeper political failure: the refusal to accept irreversible facts of federalism, Oromo self-rule, and historical reality. Denial is not argument. Semantic inversion is not moderation. And restoration politics, however eloquent, cannot substitute for credible, principled leadership.

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  • Misooma
    Siyaasa | Yaada

    Waayee Aabbuu Seeraa Fi Misooma Ilaalchisee, Ergaa Faarseebulaa Fi

    By OROMIA TODAY Posted on2026-01-122026-01-12

    Yerroo ammaa kana, Faarseebulaan ofii janjayee, biyaa janjessaa jira. "Misoomnni" ummataa Oromoo balleessuf karooraa baafatee ka'e yoo qeeqaan, akka faallaa misoomaa dhabaatanitti fudhatu. Bayyen isaanii, oduma beekanuu, firiifaarii jarri itti darbatani jechuuf, dununfatanii quuqaama Oromoo irratti duulu. Kan sobee rafe silaawu hin damaqqu; mee kan dhugaa rafe, Afaan Ingiliffa'rra Afaan Oromoo dubbisuun salphaa yoo ta'ef jechuun barruu kana maxansine.

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  • Tuulamaa
    Campaign | ⏭

    Save the Tuulamaas and Their Ancestral Lands

    By GLONA (GLobal Odaa Nabee Association) Posted on2026-01-092026-01-11

    Tuulamaa did not vanish by accident. Over 150 years, “development” projects—from Finfinne and Bole Airport to today’s Mega Airport—have systematically erased Tuulamaa communities in central Oromia. This article exposes the pattern, highlights the latest threat, and calls readers to peaceful, informed action before the Tuulamaa story becomes history written in concrete.

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  • Politics Lessons
    Article | Opinion | Politics | ⏭

    OROMIA TODAY – Basic Politics Lessons 101For members of political parties in general and the Prosperity Party in particular

    By Malkkaa Beenyaa (MA, Social Psychologist) Posted on2026-01-092026-01-09

    It has become increasingly clear that many party members lack even a basic understanding of the norms, limits, and responsibilities of political life. A dangerous assumption has taken root: that once a party forms a government, it automatically owns the state. This false belief is where criminality begins, now an everyday occurrence under the Prosperity Party. Written as Politics Lessons for reflection rather than insult, this article helps members identify where political participation ends and personal liability begins, concluding with Safuu as a moral anchor in public life.

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  • Medemer
    Op-Ed | Politics | ⏭

    How Will Medemer Be Remembered?

    By Kumaa Daadhii (PhD, Political History) Posted on2026-01-072026-01-07

    Medemer will not be remembered by its promises but by its consequences. Branded as a "doctrine" of unity, Medemer instead presided over spectacle development confined to the capital, permanent war governance, economic unraveling, normalized brutality, and systematic evictions of central Oromia. The glitter of street lights masked structural collapse, while fear became an instrument of rule. History is likely to record Medemer not as "addition", but as "subtraction"—of lives, trust, justice, and peoples' unrealized potential.

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  • Assab
    Editorial | Politics | ⏭

    An Empire That Refuses to Learn — When Power Is Reduced to Drawing Lines with Assab Port

    By OT Editorial Posted on2026-01-062026-01-06

    The delusional redrawing of maps to suggest the annexation of Assab Port is not a harmless provocation but a dangerous rehearsal for an unnecessary war—one that diplomacy can and must avert. History shows who pays when empires test fantasies with force: coerced Oromo youth sent to fight wars they did not choose. The Oromo people have learned from loss, and they reject yet another imperial gamble with their sons and daughters.

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  • AI University
    Editorial | ⏭

    Dreaming Out of Sequence: Abiy Ahmed, AI University, and Ethiopia’s Education Crisis

    By OT Editorial Posted on2026-01-052026-01-05

    The announcement of an AI University at Addis Ababa University’s 75th Anniversary was framed as visionary, yet it exposed a deeper contradiction in Ethiopia’s education crisis. While graduates remain unemployed, schools are closed by insecurity, and academic standards decline, grand AI ambitions risk becoming spectacle rather than substance. This article examines how misplaced sequencing, political psychology, and institutional fragility turn the promise of an AI University into a symbol of imbalance rather than progress.

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  • Amharic
    Article | Language | Research | ⏭

    Amharic Language Shift Among Agaw, Qimant and Oromo CommunitiesAnd Why These Amount to Ethnocide and Must be Reversed

    By Yadessa Guma (PhD, Anthropology) Posted on2026-01-042026-01-02

    This article synthesizes sociolinguistic research on language shift among Agaw, Qimant, and Oromo communities in northern Ethiopia to explain why Amharic replacement is best understood as a long-term institutional process rather than a sudden loss. Drawing on comparative evidence, it argues that “Amhara” functions historically as a linguistic–social formation shaped by schooling, administration, and mobility incentives, while showing how minority languages can persist, decline, or revive depending on intergenerational transmission and institutional support.

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  • Wallaga
    Op-Ed | Politics | ⏭

    The Forgotten War in Wallaga: Why Atrocities in Western Oromia Remain Uncounted

    By Yadessa Guma (PhD, Anthropology) Posted on2026-01-032026-01-02
    1 Comment

    While the world associates Ethiopia’s mass violence with the Tigray war, a longer and largely uncounted war has devastated western Oromia—especially Wallaga—since 2018. Displacement, repeated massacres, school closures, and the collapse of health services have become a grim norm, yet the true civilian death toll remains unknown. This article explains what we know, what we still do not know, why the suffering has been under-reported, and why an independent investigation by credible human rights bodies is now urgent.

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  • 0.2%
    Editorial | Fact-checking | MMPPM | ⏭

    Math Meets PP Myth: The 0.2% “Appreciation” as Statistical Noise and Political Messaging

    By OT Editorial Posted on2026-01-012026-01-02

    A 0.2% “appreciation” is not news from the NBE Governor; it is noise. In FX markets, such a shift is statistically meaningless—well within volatility and margin of error. Presenting it as progress is not optimism but contempt: a technocratic sleight of hand that assumes the public cannot tell arithmetic theater from economic reality. This is fifth installment in the Math Meets PP Regime Myth series.

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  • Yonas Biru
    Op-Ed | Politics

    Gadaa on Trial: How Yonas Biru Turns Selective Ethnography into Political Prosecution

    By Kumaa Daadhii (PhD, Political History) Posted on2025-12-242025-12-24
    1 Comment

    Yonas Biru’s “Gadaa is part apartheid” is not scholarship but a political prosecution dressed in citations. It announces a verdict (“Oromummaa is a lie”), then cherry-picks evidence to delegitimize Oromo identity claims, smear Oromo scholarship as extremism, and insinuate guilt-by-association with violence. The apartheid analogy is a sensational moral grenade, not a serious comparison. UNESCO’s recognition of Gadaa underscores its governance value, not Yonas Biru caricature.

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