Amnesty International: Ethiopian authorities crack down on opposition supporters with mass arrests

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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 community: Appeal to stop the killings of innocent civilians in Oromia/Ethiopia

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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…

OSA: Responding to False Accusations

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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…

Nobel Peace Prize winner accused: Civilians are murdered and tortured

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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…

Double Standards: Ethiopia Must Solve its Internal Displacement Crisis

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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 (OCA-NA) supports Qeerroo

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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…

Middleman: A prime minister torn between rival camps is increasingly acting in his own interests

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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…

Participating in a ‘Meddemer’ Principle or Perpetrating a Reign of Terror in Oromia?

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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…

OSA President’s letter to the PM of Ethiopia Dr Abiy Ahmed

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November 3, 2019Dr. Abiy Ahmed, Prime MinisterFederal Democratic Republic of EthiopiaOffice of the Prime MinsterP.O. Box 1031Finfinne, 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 is also an encouragement for…

Ethiopia’s Oromos celebrate thanksgiving

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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…

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Ethiopia’s Oromo celebrate festival in Addis amid tight security

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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…

Aspirations and Realities in Africa: Ethiopia’s Quiet Revolution

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Aspirations and Realities in Africa: Ethiopia’s Quiet Revolution Source: https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/aspirations-and-realities-in-africa-ethiopias-quiet-revolution/ By Jon Temin and Yoseph Badwaz ABSTRACT While enormous challenges persist, the ongoing political opening in Ethiopia offers an opportunity for the expansion of democracy and respect for human rights in a geopolitically important state, and is already having significant implications for peace and security…

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Ethiopia’s leader warns plotters following coup attempt

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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/ethiopias-leader-warns-plotters-following-coup-attempt/2019/07/01/c2e1241a-9c18-11e9-83e3-45fded8e8d2e_story.html?utm_term=.fdcf50e44a61 By Elias Meseret | AP July 1 at 12:01 PM ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia’s prime minister has issued a strong warning to anyone who would plot to topple his government, following a coup attempt in the country’s northwestern Amhara region. Addressing lawmakers on Monday, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said the attack in Amhara as…

Warnings over ‘Africa’s Yugoslavia’ as Ethiopia coup attempt heightens risk of violent Balkan-style split

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By Adrian Blomfield, AFRICA CORRESPONDENT 30 JUNE 2019 • 7:00AM SOURCE: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/30/warnings-africas-yugoslavia-ethiopia-coup-attempt-heightens/ The meeting was meant to have been top-secret. The men gathered inside the room were the most powerful in northern Ethiopia’s Amhara region. The agenda before them was incendiary: the removal of Asamnew Tsige, the regional security chief whose shadowy ambitions had chilled…

Lutheran Saints #4: Onesimos Nesib and Aster Ganno

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June 12, 2019 By Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Source: https://www.sarahhinlickywilson.com/blog/2019/6/12/lutheran-saints-4-onesimos-nesib-and-aster-ganno?fbclid=IwAR3_N5X6tuT2YqO4Tmo_u4zsQt_7UH5ahGV5IyvWHNLbJcds76MCq-Hqsow If you attend a Lutheran church you may have noticed occasionally the unfamiliar name “Onesimos Nesib” among the commemorations of saints. Here’s his story—one that can’t be told without that of his friend and coworker, Aster Ganno. Go to an Ethiopian church in the U.S. today…