More than 52 people were killed in a stampede in central Ethiopia after police fired warning shots at a holy festival Sunday, Communications Minister Getachew Reda said. “Troublemakers” at the Oromo ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. When Feyisa Lilesa, a medal-winning Olympic runner from Ethiopia, visited ...

In the opening pages of “Oromo Witness,” author Abdul Dire drives from engineering classes at the University of Minnesota to a restaurant on Minneapolis’ Lake Street to pick up his uncle, Hangasu Wako ...

In Memoriam for the great Oromo artist, Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, assassinated on June 30, 2020. Oromo music has played a central role in providing alternative spaces for enunciating ‘the Oromo question’.

Addis Abeba, August 12/2020 - In the Ethiopian popular imagination, emperors and rulers are glorified, lionized and monumentalized while the stories and histories of those who resisted their ...

Melbourne woman Toltu Tufa launches publishing company to print teaching resources for Oromo, a language forbidden under Haile Selassie Toltu Tufa grew up in Australia, so she couldn’t understand why ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — More than 52 people were killed in a ...