Gadaa is a highly independent democratic and egalitarian political system that has guided the religious, social, political and economic affairs of the Oromo people of the Horn of Africa for many ...

The Guji has various laws, traditions and cultural norms that accord high respect and recognition to women and which ensure women's entitlement to equal rights with men. The norms grant several rights ...

Last week, a car rolled through the town of Gedeb in southern Ethiopia, flanked by federal police. A local official made an announcement to roughly 150 000 people who, displaced from their homes, have ...

Hundreds of those who fled have gone to the remote town of Arero to collect basic provisions like blankets and plastic sheeting from aid agencies. "They fought us, they killed our people and they ...

Ethiopia's economy is in a perilous state, with heavy foreign debt and a shortage of international currency hampering the ambitious infrastructure projects embraced by the government You can save this ...

May 28, 2007 — The Sidama and Oromo are same people struggling for common cause. We have been experiencing bitter poison of the EPRDF that divide nations and nationalities since it came to power by ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — A new report by ...

IN THE CORNER of a restaurant in Nekemte, a town in western Ethiopia, Fisaha Aberra unfolds a piece of paper on which he has scrawled the names of 11 men he says were shot by soldiers last year. After ...