In its annual report this month, the state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission urged officials to pay closer attention to the tensions and violence in the Oromia region. The commission said ...

Ethiopia’s prime minister has called on his supporters to redouble their efforts in the country's civil war, as rebel forces claimed to have seized key cities that control a major highway toward the ...

On 6 May 2021, the Ethiopian House of People’s Representatives approved a decision from the Council of Ministers to designate the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Oromo Liberation Front ...

The mob of young men, carrying machetes, marched into the neighbourhood with a list of names and ethnicities of its residents. “This land is Oromo land,” they chanted. Abebech Shiferaw, a 49-year-old ...

ADDIS ABABA - A top singer, songwriter, and businessman from the Oromia region was gunned down by unknown people in Addis Ababa on Monday, authorities said, in an incident which has been termed as ...

"It's repulsive to have been born a woman. If I were a man, they might have beaten me and walked away - they wouldn't have ...

EXCLUSIVE: Father Eskedar Getaneh stepped out of his house on April 12 to screams from surrounding neighbors in the village of Arkumbi Kebele in the Oromo region of ethnically divided Ethiopia.

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The nature of this article is such that it violates restrictions placed on the media by the Electoral Commission of Ethiopia with effect on June, 17 under a four-day "Period of Silence". Prime ...

Hamilton’s Oromo community may be small, but they want it known they are standing with their brothers and sisters back home. A group of about 20 members of the Oromo Community of Hamilton stood ...