Ethiopia News » Oromia News Ethiopia » Oromia » History: Addis Ababa and Oromia: What Does the Constitution’s ‘Special Interest’ Clause Actually Mean?
What Does the Constitution’s ‘Special Interest’ Clause Actually Mean? The drafting history of Article 49(5) suggests that its central purpose was to manage the unavoidable relationship between Addis ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » History: Ethiopia: Mass-Atrocities, Genocide In Oromia Region Against Amhara People – OpEd
This paper is partly driven by a recent case of hate speech uttered by an Oromo student at Harvard University (1). In this speech, the student encouraged the Oromo youth to ’eat up the Amhara flesh ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » History: 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 » History: Watchdog: Tigray Violence Overshadows That in Ethiopia's Oromia
The Tigray conflict in Ethiopia's north is overshadowing a "persistent cycle of violence" against civilians by security forces and armed groups in the Oromia region, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
News Ethiopia » Oromia » History: As Tigray calms, Ethiopia sees growing conflict in Oromia
FILE - Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks at a final campaign rally at a stadium in the town of Jimma in the southwestern Oromia Region of Ethiopia, June 16 2021. Even as Ethiopian Prime ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » History: Ethiopia: After Tigray and Oromia, Amhara nationalists take on Abiy
The instability roiling Ethiopia is intensifying in Amhara, the second-largest region, which is following Tigray and Oromia by hosting rebels that threaten to oust the federal government in Addis ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » History: Ethiopia: Inside the Oromia massacre – ‘There were corpses everywhere’
Ahmed was heading to a local market when he heard gunfire ring out from his village in the Gimbi district of Ethiopia’s Oromia region on Saturday, 18 June. After the shooting died down, he says, he ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » History: 9 killed in Ethiopia Oromia region attack
Residents and relatives say at least nine people were killed during an attack in the Arsi Zone of the Oromia region of Ethiopia on Thursday. Adebebu Workineh is a resident of the Shirka Woreda — or ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » History: Ethiopia's Other War: The Shadowy Oromia Conflict
Even as the rivals in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict have agreed to a ceasefire, reports of air strikes and massacres are emerging in Oromia, a region haunted by a long-running insurgency. The Barron's ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » History: Ethiopia's multinational federalism, limits of national dialogue - why Finfinnee and Dirree cannot be bargaining chips
Ethiopia's long-awaited National Dialogue Conference, which officially commenced in Addis Abeba on 15 July 2026, concluded on 22 August 2026, following four years of a process marked by significant ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » History: The ‘New Auschwitz’: Wollega, Oromia Region, Ethiopia – OpEd
A few years ago, I visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum, on the sites of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp. Last week, I visited a Jewish ...