The Africa Report

Ethiopia: The fight between Oromo and Amhara militants

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 ...
Human Rights Watch

Ethiopia: Civilians in Western Oromia Left Unprotected

(Nairobi, August 31, 2022) – An armed group killed several hundred Amhara civilians in western Oromia in June 2022 while Ethiopian security forces did little to protect them, Human Rights Watch said ...
The Africa Report

Ethiopia: The Oromo Liberation Army is not a terrorist organisation

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 ...
TwinCities.com

War biopic, political history and family memoir frame ‘Oromo Witness’

In the opening pages of “Oromo Witness,” author Abdul Dire drives from engineering classes at the University of Minnesota to a restaurant on Minneapolis’ Lake Street to pick up his uncle, Hangasu Wako ...
Jurist

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 ...
The Conversation

Ethiopia’s civil war: Five reasons why history won’t repeat itself

A cheering crowd surrounds the toppled statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in Addis Ababa following the overthrow of the Ethiopian military regime in 1991. Jerome Delay/AFP ...
The National Interest

Oromo Separatist Group Blamed for Massacre in Southern Ethiopia

The Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), a separatist rebel group in southern Ethiopia, reportedly killed more than 200 civilians in the village of Tole on Sunday, according to the New York Times. The killing ...
The Conversation

What’s causing the violence in western Ethiopia

Survivors of the violence in Benishangul-Gumuz gather in a circle at a displaced persons camp in Chagni, Ethiopia in December 2020. GettyImages While the world is focusing on the humanitarian crisis ...
CNN

At least 200 civilians killed in western Ethiopia, say reports and officials

At least 200 civilians are believed to have been killed in Ethiopia’s Oromia region by rebel group the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) on Saturday, according to reports, a rights group and local officials ...
Reuters

Attackers kill at least 20 in attack in Ethiopia's Oromiya region, says official

NAIROBI, April 29 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least 20 people last week in western Ethiopia, a regional government official said on Thursday, in what he and two residents described as an attack on ...
Reuters

Tigrayan and Oromo forces say they have seized towns on Ethiopian highway

ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Two different groups fighting Ethiopia's central government said they had seized control of towns on Sunday as the prime minister appealed for citizens to take ...