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The Forgotten War in Wallaga: Why Atrocities in Western Oromia Remain Uncounted
By Yadessa Guma (PhD, Anthropology) Posted on2026-01-032026-01-02
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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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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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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
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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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Editorial | Oromummaa Scholarship
Asafa Jalata: They Tried to Erase His Scholarship. Instead, They Enshrined It
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-12-232025-12-23
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The attempt to erase Professor Asafa Jalata’s scholarship has achieved the opposite. By attacking decades of rigorous research on Oromummaa, Amhara extremist elites have elevated Asafa Jalata into a historical league of scholars once vilified for naming injustice. Suppression has not weakened the Oromo claim; it has validated it. When scholarship is silenced rather than debated, it is not the scholar who is exposed—but the fear of those who cannot tolerate truth.
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Injustice Always Produces Independence
By Kumaa Daadhii (PhD, Political History) Posted on2025-12-212025-12-20
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Injustice is not a permanent condition; it is an unstable one. Where dignity, consent, and autonomy are denied, resistance does not fade—it evolves. Between those who fight injustice with clarity and those who preserve it through denial or opportunism lies a spectrum of hesitation that slows justice but cannot stop it. History is clear: stability is not imposed by force, but reached through courage, accountability, and self-determination.
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Editorial | ⏭
When “Democracy” Applauds an Empire: Why Prime Minister Modi’s Speech Is Deeply Disappointing to Ethiopia’s Oppressed Nations
By OT Editorial Posted on2025-12-172025-12-17
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to Ethiopia’s Parliament was wrapped in warmth and symbolism, but it also echoed a familiar Ethiopianist storyline: a seamless, timeless national narrative that quietly sidesteps conquest, forced assimilation, and the lived realities of Oromo and other oppressed peoples. When the leader of the world’s largest democracy lends prestige to that framing—amid today’s grave human-rights and displacement crises—disappointment is not only understandable, but inevitable.
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Op-Ed | Politics | ⏭
EZEMA’s Four “Core Problems of Ethiopia”: A Diagnosis Without Literacy of Ethiopian History
By Biqila Bariso (PhD, Physics; MSc, Cognitive Sci.) Posted on2025-12-132025-12-10
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EZEMA claims Ethiopia faces four fundamental problems, but its diagnosis reveals profound political illiteracy. By blaming the EPRDF for an “ethnic problem” and proposing the absurd abolition of ethnic politics, EZEMA misreads Ethiopia’s history, structure, and lived realities. This article exposes why EZEMA’s worldview collapses under scrutiny — from sovereignty and rights to poverty and national narrative — and why Ethiopia’s future cannot be grounded in such conceptual blindness.
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The First Principles Violated: The Simple Truth Behind a Century of Ethiopian Instability
By Biqila Bariso (PhD, Physics; MSc, Cognitive Sci.) Posted on2025-12-112025-12-11
Politics remains the only profession where immense power requires no mastery of first principles, and nowhere is this more destructive than in Ethiopia. Identity is reshaped, consent bypassed, and self-determination denied—violations that predictably produce rebellion, collapse, and endless conflict. This article distills the political laws of stability Ethiopia keeps defying, and shows why stability, peace, and development will remain elusive until its leaders embrace these foundational truths. It ends with a postscript message to the Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission (ENDC), warning it against repeating the foundational violations at the root of Ethiopia’s instability.
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Article | Op-Ed | Politics | ⏭
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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Editorial | Opinion | Politics | ⏭
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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Op-Ed | Opinion | ⏭
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 | ⏭
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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Article | Opinion | Politics | ⏭
The Politics of Spite—How Oromia’s Foundations Expose the Empty Ambitions of a Troubled Region
By Elemoo Qilxuu (MA, Political Science), Kumaa Daadhii (PhD, Political History) and Olii Boran (PhD, Sociology) 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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Op-Ed | Politics | ⏭
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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Op-Ed | Politics | ⏭
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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Op-Ed | Politics | ⏭
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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