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With a population of at least 35 million, the Oromo are the largest tribe in Ethiopia. They’ve suffered discrimination at the hands of the ruling Tigray tribe for decades.
An African asylum seeker has won a reprieve to remain in the UK after an immigration judge confused his Somali clan with the ...
Oromo rebels have been fighting Ethiopia’s central government for decades. Advertisement. Fekade said in the interview that he joined the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) in 2000, when he was 18.
Feyisa Lilesa earned a silver medal for Ethiopia in the Olympic marathon, and afterward, ... The Oromo tribe has historically been marginalized by the government, ...
Rebels from Ethiopia's Oromiya region accused the government on Wednesday of launching a military offensive against them after a first round of peace talks ended earlier this month without a deal.
The Ethiopian government has once again failed to reach an agreement with Oromo rebel forces, with peace talks in Tanzania reaching an inconclusive end Tuesday.
Ethiopia's Feyisa Lilesa held his arms over his head, wrists crossed, as he finished second at the Olympic marathon on Sunday in a gesture of support for members of his Oromo tribe who have been ...
Once hailed for its rapid economic growth and growing regional influence, Ethiopia now finds itself in the midst of a deepening crisis. Armed conflicts, a worsening humanitarian emergency, and ...
AMBO, Ethiopia — For years, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has been one of the few institutions that helped bind this war-riven country together, unifying disparate ethnic groups around ...
The shrouded bodies of elders from the Karayyuu tribe of Ethiopia. ... An Oromo man wears traditional costume at Irreecha, a thanksgiving celebration, in Addis Ababa in 2019.
There have been increasingly deadly attacks on Amhara civilians in Oromia, and some Oromos claim that the multiethnic Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, is Oromo territory.