Minnesota (Little Oromia) is playing host to the North American Summer Oromo convention (aka Oromo Festival in North America). Now a sixteen year old tradition, once a year Oromo immigrants living in ...
Draped in traditional colours including the red, white and black of the Oromo flag, crowds descended on the shores of Lake Hora Arsadi, 50km (30 miles) southeast of Addis Ababa, for the annual ...
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On 6 May 2021, the Ethiopian House of People’s Representatives approved a decision from the Council of Ministers to designate the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Oromo Liberation Front ...
Since the Ethiopian government announced plans to expand the territory of the capital Addis Ababa in April 2014, the country's largest region, Oromia, has been racked with protests that have led to ...
In search of recognition, a cultural group that feels like it’s been undercounted in Minnesota is looking to calculate its exact population in the state. The Oromo Cultural Institute of Minnesota ...
Afan Oromo, a native language of Ethiopia, is being taught at Stanford for the first time this fall as a part of the Stanford Language Center’s African and Middle Eastern Languages Program (AMELANG) ...
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 ...
On many occasions in St. Cloud, Dotoo Nebi noticed that something about his slim body, average height and dark complexion sorts him into a community he technically doesn’t belong to: Somalis. “People ...
Asafa Jalata does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
The family of Tamima Nebras Juhar, a 34-year-old Oromo woman and Norwegian citizen, are demanding justice after she was brutally killed on Sunday, August 24, inside a childcare service center operated ...
Editor’s Note: Awol K. Allo is LSE Fellow in Human Rights at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights. He writes on the issues behind several months of protests by Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the ...