Oromo women have increasingly become advocates for their rights and the rights of others. They are at the forefront of movements promoting gender equality, education, and social justice.

For Oromo women, I argue the opposite is true, as only through veiling do women feel free and secure. And while the phenomenon of veiling by Muslim women as a public display of modesty has become a ...

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 ...

Ethiopia: Connected Through Her Absence - the Journey of an Oromo Woman to Keep High the Language Dear to Her and Forty Million Others. 3 April 2015. Addis Standard (Addis Ababa) ...

Abdurahman Kadir has a difficult time watching the video of his cousin Misra Haji-Nabo, a woman in her 20s, lying bloodied and fatally wounded in a street outside Ethiopia’s capital city. The 35 ...

This ancient system offers protection to Oromo women in Ethiopia. BBC News Afaan Oromo went to find out more. 11 June 2018. Share. Save. Watch: Might the next pope come from Africa?

On Memorial Day, Oromo Minnesotans, early settlers of the land, congregated to reminisce and reflect on what has been an extraordinarily American experience. People lived in the territory today known ...

Women mourn during the funeral of Tesfu Tadese Biru, ... The government puts the death toll at 55 while the opposition Oromo Federalist Congress Party reported the death of 678.

The Oromo, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, are engaged in a violent standoff with government leaders over elections, self-rule and their country's future. ... said a local Oromo woman.

A daughter of Seattle's Oromo community, Biftu Dadi was remembered as a smart, spirited young woman. Dadi's life was cut short at 24 when she was knifed on March 9 in the back of an SUV parked in ...

“Hello, Feyisa, my Oromo lion,” Mako Felema, an Oromo woman from Minnesota said. “You made all Oromo people proud. You showed what Oromo people is to the world.

Yet, just five years ago, Oromo women in Eastleigh proudly wore their cultural dress in public. For refugees with little in the way of material heritage, women's dress, ...