Gadaa is a highly independent democratic and egalitarian political system that has guided the religious, social, political and economic affairs of the Oromo people of the Horn of Africa for many ...

The Guji has various laws, traditions and cultural norms that accord high respect and recognition to women and which ensure women's entitlement to equal rights with men. The norms grant several rights ...

IN THE CORNER of a restaurant in Nekemte, a town in western Ethiopia, Fisaha Aberra unfolds a piece of paper on which he has scrawled the names of 11 men he says were shot by soldiers last year. After ...

May 28, 2007 — The Sidama and Oromo are same people struggling for common cause. We have been experiencing bitter poison of the EPRDF that divide nations and nationalities since it came to power by ...

Hundreds of those who fled have gone to the remote town of Arero to collect basic provisions like blankets and plastic sheeting from aid agencies. "They fought us, they killed our people and they ...

On 6 May 2021, the Ethiopian House of People’s Representatives approved a decision from the Council of Ministers to designate the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Oromo Liberation Front ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — A new report by the rights group Amnesty International accuses Ethiopia’s security forces of extrajudicial killings and mass detentions even as the country’s reformist ...

"The project was first launched at a special panel ... at the XIIIth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, held in Kyoto, Japan in December 1997"--Preface. AFA copy 39088019586833 gift of ...

The commercial company that has taken over the management of one of Ethiopia's most beautiful game reserves has found that keeping the local people happy is more difficult than looking after the ...