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The Happy Tears of One, the Anguished Tears of Thousands
ByOT Editorial Posted on2025-09-092025-09-09

Ethiopia today elevates the happy tears of an autocratic ruler above the anguished tears of thousands. As Oromia bleeds from years of massacres, displacement, and proxy wars, state media buries the truth — while in grotesque contrast, the ruler’s tears of joy receive wall-to-wall coverage. History warns us: ignored anguish always erupts into tragedy. The world must act now, before Oromia’s tears ignite into an irreversible fire.

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Opinion | Politics

The Idea of Oromia Shall Never Be Extinguished
ByYadessa Guma Posted on2025-07-122025-07-12

The idea of Oromia is more than a place—it’s a vision of justice, dignity, and identity. Despite repression and new threats cloaked in legality, this enduring ideal lives on in Oromo resistance, culture, and memory. Now more than ever, Oromia must be defended, revived, and reimagined for the future it promises.

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Ethiopia's Elites Crisis: Fragmentation, Failure, and the Path to Relevance
ByAbba Sooqee Posted on2025-06-302025-06-30
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Ethiopia’s elites crisis runs deeper than disunity—it is a collapse of legitimacy. Fragmented, distrusted, and internally divided, no elite figure today commands a unified mandate. Peace will remain a mirage until the elites reconcile with their own constituencies and confront the vertical fractures within. Without grassroots credibility, national dialogue is empty performance—and irrelevance is the best they can hope for.

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Decoding Prosperity Party Regime's Farcical Four-Day Meeting on Oromia
ByOT Editorial Posted on2025-02-232025-05-13

DISCLAIMER This editorial opinion of OROMIA TODAY has been formulated in consultation with opinion influencers. What Just Happened? Reportedly, delegates representing a broad spectrum of political, civic, and faith-based organizations—16 in total, as stated—convened to deliberate on the political and security situation in Oromia. While the stated purpose was to discuss these pressing issues,…

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OLF is Oromo, Oromo is OLF
Bydmosis Posted on2016-06-07
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Oromo liberation movement originated from pain oppression caused to Oromo society. At a period when poverty, illiteracy, ignorance and physical and psychological abuse reached an intolerable level in Oromia social movements to ameliorate them started to show up and political grievances started to simmer. Among the social movements the greatest was Maccaa and Tuulamaa Self…

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