Oduu Addunyaa

Somali-Oromo clashes halt Khat transport to Somaliland

The Khat trad   ers and consumers in breakaway Somaliland have been facing khat shortage for the last three days…

8 years ago

Ethiopia just pardoned political prisoners. Could that signal a shift to real democracy?

https://www.washingtonpost.com Is Ethiopia opening — ever so slightly — to democracy? Some observers were cautiously optimistic after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn’s surprising…

8 years ago

Ethiopia’s Oromo leader meets German envoy over political developments

http://www.africanews.com Barely two weeks after criminal charges against him were dropped and he was released from prison, Dr. Merera Gudina,…

8 years ago

Mystery Solved: Saudi Prince Is Buyer Of $450M DaVinci Painting

The mystery over who paid a record-breaking $450 million for Leonardo da Vinci's painting Salvator Mundiat an auction last month appears…

8 years ago

Renewed Oromo-Somali clashes in Ethiopia kill more than 20: state media

ADDIS ABABA A renewed bout of clashes between two of Ethiopia's largest ethnic groups killed more than 20 people last…

8 years ago

‘We fear for our lives’: how rumours over sugar saw Ethiopian troops kill 10 people

www.theguardian.com   It began with a rumour. On 25 October, residents of Ambo, 120km west of the Ethiopian capital, Addis…

8 years ago

Overshadowed by Other Conflicts, Ethiopia’s Crises Undermine Its Stable Reputation

www.worldpoliticsreview.com Long before a demonstration against South Sudan’s president forced Nikki Haley to evacuate a displaced persons camp in Juba on Wednesday,…

8 years ago

Ethiopia’s Oromo denounce govt on stampede anniversary

http://www.dailymail.co.uk Ethiopia's largest ethnic group on Sunday staged a peaceful anti-government protest at their biggest festival, where dozens were killed…

8 years ago

Oromo struggle: Memories of an atrocity

by Awol K Allo @awol_allo Awol K Allo is Lecturer in Law at Keele University, UK. Lying to the southeast…

8 years ago

Ethiopia Says Somaliland Displaced Thousands of Oromo People

Ethiopia accused a semi-autonomous territory in neighboring Somalia of illegally displacing more than 3,000 long-term Oromo residents in the wake…

8 years ago