Ethiopia News » Oromia News Ethiopia » Oromia » Culture: Ethiopia’s seventh cycle: Why democratic reform is stalling at the grassroots
Digital registration and televised debates offer a glimmer of progress, but entrenched local power structures and ongoing regional conflicts threaten to turn the 2026 vote into another exercise in ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Culture: Crackdown on protests continues in Ethiopia’s Oromia region
As two of Ethiopia’s most influential partners, the UK and the US should be doing more to halt the violent crackdown and to call for an independent investigation into the abuses, Human Rights Watch ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Culture: Oromo Protests: Why Ethiopia’s Largest Ethnic Group is Demonstrating
Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Since the Ethiopian government announced plans to expand the territory of the capital Addis Ababa in April 2014, the ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Culture: Witnesses say new fighting in Ethiopia's Oromia kills dozens
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Intense fighting between Ethiopian government forces and Oromo Liberation Army rebels in the country’s ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Culture: Ethiopia's conflict-hit Oromia region struggles for healthcare
In Ethiopia’s conflict-affected Oromia region, residents of remote villages are slowly regaining access to healthcare after nearly two years of disruption. The Gunfi Primary Health Center in the West ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Culture: Ethiopia: No Let Up in Crackdown on Protests
(Nairobi) – Ethiopian security forces are violently suppressing the largely peaceful protests in the Oromia region that began in November 2015. Almost daily accounts of killings and arbitrary arrests ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Culture: Mechanisms Used by the Ethiopian Government to Control Rural Communities in Oromia
Over 85 percent of Oromia’s population lives in the countryside, scattered for the most part among small farming communities that are often far removed from any urban center. With elections ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Culture: Ethiopia: Nationalism creates schism in Orthodox Church
A deep rift within the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) has widened, with Oromo bishops formally establishing the breakaway “Oromia Orthodox Tewahedo Church” on 23 January. The newly ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Culture: Protesting Power: Ethnic Demonstrations Continue in Ethiopia
This is a guest post by Zara Riaz, a research specialist in the Politics Department at Princeton University. In the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia stands out among neighbors for its political and economic ...