Thousands of businesses remained closed Thursday in Oromia, Ethiopia’s largest region, as shopkeepers protested against a new tax. Small business owners across the region have shuttered their premises ...
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ethiopia has strongly condemned attacks in the Oromia region that claimed lives and ...
In Ethiopia’s conflict-affected Oromia region, residents of remote villages are slowly regaining access to healthcare after nearly two years of disruption. The Gunfi Primary Health Center in the West ...
Malaria outbreak occurs at time when nearly all of Begi district's 42 existing health facilities in conflict-torn West Wollega zone have been looted or damaged Ethiopia declared a malaria outbreak in ...
Somaliland, a semi-autonomous region in the Horn of Africa, has displaced thousands of ethnic Oromos, according to Negeri Lencho, Ethiopia’s information minister. The forced relocations are the latest ...
More than 50 people died in Ethiopia's Oromia region Sunday after a stampede at a religious festival, which the government has blamed on "violent forces" but protesters have said was due to police ...
At least 50 people died in ethnic violence in Ethiopia’s Oromia region this month, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said on Wednesday. The state-affiliated but independent human rights ...
In Oromia, 145 civilians and 11 members of security forces were killed, Girma Gelam, deputy police commissioner said. Another 10 people were killed in the capital, eight of them civilians Ethiopian ...
This much is known: tension between the Oromia and Somali regions of Ethiopia turned deadly last week in clashes that claimed the lives of at least 18 people in the town of Awaday. Many things remain ...
Ethiopia's prime minister has threatened to crush secessionist forces accused of stoking protests in the Oromia region, where security forces have reportedly killed hundreds of demonstrators. Protests ...
The ambush by the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), which is designated a terrorist organisation by Addis Ababa, occurred last week in the North Shewa district west of the capital, the Ethiopian Human ...