The shooting dead of Kitilaa Guddata has left his family in shock. The 32-year-old high school teacher was among the latest casualties in the conflict between government forces and rebels in ...

Ilana Webster-Kogen receives funding from the Jewish Music Institute. Anyone who steps into the public sphere in Ethiopia is also a potential political leader. In this atmosphere, an outspoken ...

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“Your [Transitional Government of Somalia’s] responsibility is not to kill us but to help us since we are under your refuge.” Mohamud Sheik Hassan, chairman of the Oromo refugees in Somalia. January ...

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As protests in Ethiopia over the rights of the country's Oromo people continue, Addis Ababa-based journalist James Jeffrey considers if they are threatening the country's unity. The latest round of ...

Ethiopian lawmakers declared two political groups as terrorist organizations, as the government moves to quell instability in the run-up to elections next month. The House of Peoples’ Representatives ...

'He is our icon. He is a father figure,' says a protest leader in St. Paul Two hundred protesters from Minnesota's Oromo community gathered at the State Capitol Tuesday to protest the killing of ...

Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered in the capital of Ethiopia to welcome leaders of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), the latest members of a formerly-banned rebel group to return home ...

At least 800 people have died since the start of the Oromo protests in Ethiopia one year ago, according to Amnesty International. Thousands have been detained after the government imposed a state of ...