Young Oromos are leaving the region in droves, risking torture and death to cross the Red Sea in search of a better life.

Gada is a traditional system of governance of the Oromo people in Ethiopia developed from knowledge gained over generations. It regulates political, economic, social and religious activity serving as ...

The Fano insurgency is taking place in a territory three times the size of Tigray, stretching the army’s resources.

In search of recognition, a cultural group that feels like it’s been undercounted in Minnesota is looking to calculate its exact population in the state. The Oromo Cultural Institute of Minnesota ...

Armed groups here have in the past demanded ransoms for the release of people they hold. The OLA says it is fighting for the self-determination of Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, the Oromo.

Lilesa was protesting the Ethiopian government’s killing of hundreds of the country’s Oromo people — an ethnic majority that has long complained about being marginalized by the country’s ...

Ethiopia was led by the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, a coalition of four ethnic-based political parties representing Tigray, Amhara, Oromo, and Southern nations ...

Ethiopia is in the grip of a civil war between federal government forces and the Fano, a loose alliance of ethnic-based militia in the Amhara region. This conflict in Ethiopia's north erupted less ...