Tag: Oromo people

Ethiopia’s ruling coalition has elected a new leader from the country’s Oromo ethnic group, which has been at the centre ...

British broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is set to invest about $10m in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, as part of ...

The United States issued a warning Thursday to its citizens about travelling to a popular tourist region in Ethiopia after ...

The Ethiopian parliament has extended by four months a state of emergency it declared six months ago after almost a ...

Ethiopia's government has charged three prominent opposition activists with inciting riots, destroying property and plotting a coup, a government spokesman ...

nternational Rights Group, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has accused the Ethiopian government of turning back on its public promise to ...

Whether mourning the death of a musical giant, teasing presidents or launching protest movements, Africans took to social media in ...

Ethiopian authorities have clarified that leading opposition figure and Chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), Dr Merera Gudina is ...

Ethiopian authorities have disclosed that some 9,800 people detained under the current state of emergency will be released next week ...

A prominent opposition leader in Ethiopia has been detained after he returned from Europe. Merera Gudina had violated Ethiopia's state ...

Ethiopia’s State of Emergency Inquiry Board has released the names and reasons of arrest for over 11,000 people believed to ...

Ethiopia has imposed severe regulations under a new six-month "state of emergency" as it faces unprecedented levels of unrest across ...

Ethiopia's government has declared a six-month state of emergency in the face of an unprecedented wave of violent protests. Activists ...

Fifty-two people were killed and many more injured in Ethiopia’s Oromia region during a protest at a religious festival, the ...

Many people have been killed and injured in Ethiopia’s Oromia region after security forces fired on a major protest, witnesses ...

A political crisis of longstanding duration has been brought to the world’s attention by the actions of a competitor at ...

The African Union is the west’s gendarme in Africa with it’s combined national armed forces increasingly primed to invade and ...