Oromo people

International

Kenya To Get $10m Investment In BBC Expansion

British broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is set to invest about $10m in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi,...

Headlines

US Issues Warning After Ethiopia Grenade Attacks

The United States issued a warning Thursday to its citizens about travelling to a popular tourist region in Ethiopia...

International

Ethiopia Extends State of Emergency By Four Months

The Ethiopian parliament has extended by four months a state of emergency it declared six months ago after almost a...

Headlines

Ethiopian Opposition Leaders Face Coup Charges

Ethiopia's government has charged three prominent opposition activists with inciting riots, destroying property and...

International

Ethiopian Government Lambasted For Flipping On Political Reform Promise

nternational Rights Group, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has accused the Ethiopian government of turning back on its public...

International

Africa’s Top Hashtags of 2016

Whether mourning the death of a musical giant, teasing presidents or launching protest movements, Africans took to...

International

Ethiopia Says Oromo Leader Detained For Meeting Terrorist Group In Brussels

Ethiopian authorities have clarified that leading opposition figure and Chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress...

International

Ethiopia To Release Over 9000 Curfew Detainees, 12,500 New Arrests Reported

Ethiopian authorities have disclosed that some 9,800 people detained under the current state of emergency will be...

International

Top Ethiopian Opposition Leader Arrested

A prominent opposition leader in Ethiopia has been detained after he returned from Europe. Merera Gudina had violated...

International

Ethiopia Releases List of Over 11,000 State of Emergency Detainees

Ethiopia’s State of Emergency Inquiry Board has released the names and reasons of arrest for over 11,000 people...

International

Ethiopia’s List of Banned Activities

Ethiopia has imposed severe regulations under a new six-month "state of emergency" as it faces unprecedented levels of...

International

Seven Things Banned Under Ethiopia’s State of Emergency

Ethiopia's government has declared a six-month state of emergency in the face of an unprecedented wave of violent...

Top Stories

Dozens Killed At Ethiopia Protest

Fifty-two people were killed and many more injured in Ethiopia’s Oromia region during a protest at a religious...

International

‘Many Killed’ At Ethiopia Protest

Many people have been killed and injured in Ethiopia’s Oromia region after security forces fired on a major protest,...

Opinion

The Iron-Fisted Ethiopian State

A political crisis of longstanding duration has been brought to the world’s attention by the actions of a competitor...

Opinion

African Union; The Wests Gendarme In Africa

The African Union is the west’s gendarme in Africa with it’s combined national armed forces increasingly primed to...