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Ethiopia’s Oromo Youth Will No Longer Stay Silent

February 6, 2017TesfaNews4 Comments

The Qubee generation is ready to fight on until either all Oromos are jailed, killed and exiled, or until everyone is free. By Uju Okoye, Mohammed Ademo, an Ethiopian journalist and editor of the OPride news platform, had a difficult time choosing the 2016 Oromo Person of the Year. In fact, Ademo admits in his […]

Ethiopia Stifles Dissent, Commits Serious Human Rights Violations with Impunity

June 9, 2016June 9, 2016TesfaNews16 Comments

By Gregory Warner | for NPR, The Oromo Federalist Congress, an opposition party in Ethiopia, represents the largest ethnic group in the country, the Oromo. Yet its office in the capital Addis Ababa is virtually deserted, with chairs stacked up on tables. A chessboard with bottle caps as pieces is one of the few signs […]