Then, two starkly different stories are put forward as to who is responsible. Amhara activists claim that Amhara militias are fighting to defend their community in response to Oromo Liberation Army’s ...

When you talk to men and women from the Oromo tribe of Ethiopia who have fled persecution there to live in Minnesota as refugees, the conversation often takes a surprising turn. Lencho Bati, who lives ...

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Oromo women protest against Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed over violence in their homeland in 2020. Keith Mayhew via Getty Images In November 2020 an outbreak of violence in Ethiopia’s Tigray ...

Ethiopia has “ruthlessly targeted” its largest ethnic group for suspected links to a rebel group, human rights group Amnesty International says. Thousands of Oromo people had been subjected to ...

Thousands of people from the Oromo, Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, celebrated their thanksgiving festival in Bishoftu city amid tight security on Sunday after the authorities said they had seized ...

NAIROBI, April 20(Reuters) - The death toll from violence last week in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region has risen to at least 50, residents said on Tuesday, amid tensions in the area between the ...

Two attempts have been made over the past six years to broker peace between the Ethiopian government and the armed rebel group Oromo Liberation Front. The armed group was formed half a century ago ...

This piece is a response to the article “Ethiopia: Victory for the Oromo will come from winning hearts and minds, not terrorising people” that was written by Nagesso Dube. Nagesso – a staunch ...