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The latest round of peace talks between Ethiopia’s federal government and a militant group waging a long-running conflict in the country's Oromia region have broken up in Tanzania without an agreement ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Government: Latest peace talks between Ethiopia’s government and Oromo militants break up without an agreement
ADDIS ABABA, EthiopiaADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The latest round of peace talks between Ethiopia’s federal government and a militant group waging a long-running conflict in the country’s Oromia region ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Government: 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 » Government: Ethiopian rebel leader rejects accusations of targeting civilians in rare interview from hideout
Oromia is Ethiopia’s country’s biggest state, with 35% of the population and the Federal Republic’s capital, Addis Ababa. But according to Jaal Marroo, the leader of the Oromo Liberation Army, ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Government: 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 » Government: Ethiopia secret committee violating human rights in suppressing Oromo insurgency group: Reuters investigation
An investigation published by Reuters on Friday revealed that a secretive committee of high-ranking officials in Ethiopia has been committing human rights violations in order to eliminate the Oromo ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Government: Security Concerns Take Center Stage as National Vote Edges Closer
After the post-EPRDF government took the helm in April 2018, it planned to conduct a general election in August 2020. Six months before the vote was due to ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Government: The IMF’s bailout of Ethiopia’s government will only make matters worse
On a recent day in July, travelers along one of the busier roads in Ethiopia — the highway between the capital of Addis Ababa and Debark in the northern highlands — fell prey to the newest scourge in ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Government: Ethiopia's rights body calls for investigation into the killing of a prominent opposition figure
NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s state-appointed rights commission on Wednesday called for an investigation into the killing of a prominent opposition figure recently released from prison. Bate Urgessa was ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Government: Ethiopia: Authorities Suspend Three Rights Groups
(Nairobi) – Ethiopian authorities should immediately reverse the suspension of three independent human rights organizations and allow them to freely operate, Human Rights Watch said today. Ethiopia’s ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Government: 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 » Government: U.S. Government Inaugurates Outpatient Center with Maternity Ward and Emergency Unit at Shashemene Hospital, Oromia
A new $3.6 million, state-of-the art Outpatient Department with Maternity Ward and Emergency Unit with Operation Room, constructed by the United States Government through the U.S. Centers for Disease ...