While no one has claimed responsibility for the shooting, the 34-year old had been receiving death threats. News of his death saw thousands of his fans make their way to his hospital in Addis Ababa.

February 7, 2008 — To escape the persecution of the colonial Ethiopian regime, thousands of Oromo refugees fled to neighbouring East African countries over the last four decades. Today, with the rapid ...

The Oromo people have not been able to dominate the politics of Ethiopia, as the Amhara and Tigrinya people have dominated the empire's governance. Nonetheless, the Oromo's ancestral principle of ...

A man waves an Oromo flag in St. Paul, Minnesota on Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Protesters are outraged by the killing of Hachalu Hundessa. © Evan Frost/Minnesota ...

Editor’s Note: Awol K. Allo is LSE Fellow in Human Rights at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights. He writes on the issues behind several months of protests by Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the ...

HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — A North Carolina state representative has made his first appearance in court after being charged ...

Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopia's largest ethnic group celebrated in Addis Ababa on Saturday at the start of an annual thanksgiving festival which was marred by violence in 2016. Security was high ...

Ethiopia's Oromo rebels have denied claims by the Ethiopian army that it had "completely annihilated" the armed separatist movement in the west of the country. Speaking on the BBC's Focus on Africa ...

The Ethiopian government on Sunday declared a six-month nationwide state of emergency following months of anti-government protests. It is the first time since the ruling party came to power 25 years ...

The Ethiopian army says that it has "completely annihilated" forces loyal to the armed separatist movement, the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). The OLF is not occupying or controlling any area in ...