(WOMENSENEWS)– The adoption of the veil among Oromo refugees living in Eastleigh, Kenya, one the largest urban refugee communities in Africa, is a recent phenomenon. Women feel increasing pressure to ...

A new photography exhibit and cultural presentation at Augsburg College’s Foss Center on February 24 and 25 aims to show the strength, beauty and endurance of Ethiopian women who have joined in ...

The photograph, taken by Art History Professor Dr. Peri Klemm, is part of the exhibit Bareedin: Women of Oromia. Photo Credit: Krista Daly / Senior Reporter The Art 404 exhibition design class ...

In a society, gender ideology is created and reflected in multiple ways. Among the myriad ways, language and culture play great role in creating and reflecting gendered culture in a society. This ...

Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees / Refuge: Revue canadienne sur les réfugiés, Vol. 37, No. 2, GENERAL ISSUE: SPECIAL FOCUS ON HUMANIZING STUDIES OF REFUGE AND DISPLACEMENT (NOVEMBER 2021), pp.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Feyisa Lilesa finally cracked and broke down in tears as he watched his fellow Oromo people give thanks in a series of video messages for his stance of solidarity with them. A ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group celebrated in Addis Ababa on Saturday at the start of an annual thanksgiving festival which was marred by violence in ...

A crowd of 1,500 people calling for human rights and democracy in Ethiopia walked onto Interstate Hwy. 35W in downtown Minneapolis on Friday evening to protest that nation's treatment of the Oromo ...