Four Oromo witnesses said they had seen five to 18 Amhara killed by Fekade forces. Five Amhara residents said the total was higher — about 50 people in the town. The victims included a monk and ...

Oromo people protest U.S. aid to Ethiopian government. Although Burqa has called Sioux Falls home for over a decade, he's very concerned with what's happening in his home country.

In February, church officials said at least 30 people were killed and hundreds wounded after rebel bishops from the southern Oromia region, home to the Oromo ethnic group, tried to install new ...

Ethiopia: Oromo Opposition Figures Held Despite Court ... People interviewed said they believed that the detainees’ disappearance occurred the day before Ethiopia’s national electoral board ...

The shrouded bodies of elders from the Karayyuu tribe of Ethiopia. The men were killed by security forces in 2021, ... red and white flag of the Oromo people, two of the witnesses said.

The Oromo are the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, and represent well over a third of Ethiopia’s estimated 120 million people, mostly residing in the federal state of Oromia.

With a population of at least 35 million, the Oromo are the largest tribe in Ethiopia. They’ve suffered discrimination at the hands of the ruling Tigray tribe for decades.

Oromo women have a significant role in the Irreechaa Festival, which is one of the most important cultural celebrations of the Oromo people, marking a time of thanksgiving and renewal.

Another prominent political figure, Oromo opposition politician Jawar Mohammed, earlier this month asserted that at least 350 people had been killed and over 400,000 displaced “just in the last ...

Rebels from Ethiopia's Oromiya region accused the ... Oromo rebels accuse Ethiopian forces ... is home to Ethiopia's largest ethnic group and over a third of the country's 110 million people.

Representing around a third of Ethiopia's 120 million people, the Oromo are the largest of 80 distinct groups that make up the vast and ethnically-diverse nation in the Horn of Africa.

Wolonkomi, Ethiopia - Six-year-old Abi Turi and her nine-year-old brother Dereje have not been attending classes in Wolonkomi. Their school was closed in January as the Ethiopian government began what ...