From a five-year-old girl tortured for her father’s alleged ties to the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), a young journalist detained without charge for more than 100 days, to young students with bright futures shot and killed in an instant, OLLAA’s Humans of Oromia report is an unflinching look into the human cost of the conflict …
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Violence has been escalating in Central and Western Oromia, with a series of gruesome attacks taking place over the past weeks. Drone attacks have also continued, resulting in …
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Ethiopian rebels propose humanitarian truce amid drought
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At the United Nations, Secretary-General António Guterres warned Wednesday that authoritarian governments are exploiting the pandemic to crack down on human rights. Secretary-General António Guterres: …
Read More »Children of Hope: Journey of Oromo slaves from Ethiopia to South Africa
1 Hiikkaa barruu armaan gadii tan afaan Turkiitti qophooyte kan Ingiliziitti gabaa! Galanni kan Guguli! Afaan …
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UN Humanitarian and Development Chiefs’ Mission to Ethiopia
http://www.undp.org/ Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock and United Nations Development Programme Administrator and Vice Chair of the UN Development Group …
Read More »A license to torture: Ethiopia – Torture and other ill-treatment
By Seyoum Teshome (Amnesty International) — Seyoum Teshome is a professor at a university in Ethiopia and writes to fight the spread of fear that …
Read More »Ethiopia: Testimony of Seenaa Jimjimo, The Suffering of Oromo People
543 9share3 Testimony of Seenaa Jimjimo President of Coalition of Oromo Advocates for Human Rights and Democracy House Subcommittee on Africa, Global health, Global Human …
Read More »ETHIOPIA 2016 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Ethiopia is officially a federal republic. The ruling Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), a coalition of four ethnically based parties, controls the government. …
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