Getachew Reda, Ethiopia’s communication minister, debates Lencho Bati, committee member of the Oromo Democratic Front. By Al Jazeera, More than 400 Oromos have been killed and tens of thousands arrested since November, a recent report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) found. The Ethiopian government says that some protesters who are from Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group […]
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By Alemayehu G. Mariam, RECENTLY, a 54-minute video “Ethiopia, A Failed State Documentary” was released on YouTube. The documentary presents evidence and analysis few Ethiopians would dare discuss openly because of the sheer nightmarish nature of the issues raised. The extraordinary documentary grabs by the tusk the biggest elephant in the room: The disintegration of […]
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By Stella Cherono, A CASE against 101 Ethiopians accused of being in Kenya illegally has delayed due to lack of an Amharic interpreter. The foreigners, who are said to have been on their way to South Africa, did not have travel documents, police told the Nation. They were arrested on Monday in Tassia Estate in […]
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By E – Veracity, ETHIOPIA is at a crossroad. The internal social-economic and religious inter-relationship is in turmoil. Much of the conflict is along ethnic lines that have been ever growing since the current government’s grasp to power. The current government in Ethiopia has been in power for a total of almost 24 years, and […]
Continue ReadingBy Amnesty International, THOUSANDS of members of Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo, are being ruthlessly targeted by the state based solely on their perceived opposition to the government, said Amnesty International in a new report released today. “Because I am Oromo” – Sweeping repression in the Oromia region of Ethiopia exposes how Oromos have […]
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By Amanuel Biedemariam, Does Ethiopia need saving and why? For those that follow the region closely, the signs are clear that Ethiopia faces imminent instability. Absent of divine intervention there appears no credible movement that can bring peaceful change in Ethiopia. The people of Ethiopia tried for years unsuccessfully to have their voice expressed at the […]
Continue ReadingBy William Davison, ETHIOPIAN government illegally detained at least 5,000 members of the country’s most populous ethnic group, the Oromo, over the past four years as it seeks to crush political dissent, Amnesty International said. Victims include politicians, students, singers and civil servants, sometimes only for wearing Oromo traditional dress, or for holding influential positions within […]
Continue ReadingProtests and online activism in recent months have brought a resurgence of ethnic Oromo nationalism in Ethiopia. By William Davison (Aljazeera), ASLAN Hasan, a student belonging to the Oromo ethnic group in Ethiopia, was called either a guilt-ridden terrorist who committed suicide or an innocent victim of brutal state repression, depending on who you listen […]
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