Ethiopia's Oromo students fight for land rights Ethnic Oromo students have been out on the streets of Addis Ababa, protesting against a new urban development plan unveiled in April. The students say ...

This article is published in partnership with Ethiopia Insight. “It was crazy,” he said. “You never knew if a bullet or a piece of rock would land on you.” His hometown Dire Dawa, often portrayed in ...

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Night had fallen over the Ethiopian village of Melkabulo when local Oromo men went to the houses of ethnic Somali to tell them they must cross the river before dawn or they would be killed. “Before we ...

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Officials have acknowledged that more than 170 people were killed during the protests Ethiopian security forces killed more than 400 people in the recent wave of anti-government demonstrations, ...

At least 800 people have died since the start of the Oromo protests in Ethiopia one year ago, according to Amnesty International. Thousands have been detained after the government imposed a state of ...

Many Oromo people flee Ethiopia to take refuge in neighbouring states Ethiopia has "ruthlessly targeted" its largest ethnic group for suspected links to a rebel group, human rights group Amnesty ...

Oromia/Somali Regions — Lifting her robe the young woman revealed undulating scar tissue blanketing her breasts, stomach, and extending up her neck and along her arms. "They poured petrol over me then ...

Ethiopia has experienced one of its worst population displacements due to violence in recent times. Now stuck in camps, displaced Ethiopians are trying to come to terms with what their future may hold ...

Ethiopian security forces arrested a prominent opposition politician when he returned to the country after speaking to the European Parliament in Brussels about the country's political crisis. Merera ...

Ethiopia has seen deadly unrest since Oromo singer Hachalu Hundessa was shot dead at the end of June, with Oromos denouncing their marginalisation within a country that many experts are saying is ...