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Merced Sun-Star
April 26, 2018
The U.N. human rights chief says he has witnessed "tremendous hope but also anxiety" in Ethiopia on his latest visit less than a month after the country installed a new prime minister who has promised reforms. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein in a statement Thursday said he was able to visit the restive OromiaÃâà...
defenceWeb
April 26, 2018
UN Oromiya vists The UN human rights chief was allowed to visit a region in Ethiopia roiled by protests and unrest for the past three years after the previous ... In the Oromiya region Zeid visited, hundreds of people were killed in violence since 2015, triggered by demonstrations over land rights thatÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 25, 2018
The board of Oromia Investment Commission (OIC) has approved 167 investment projects worth 5.37 billion Br. Over 81pc of them are in agriculture and agro-processing sectors. The board has been approving the projects for the past five months. Within the past two weeks, the OIC has granted licensesÃâà...
OPride.com
April 24, 2018
Abiy was born and raised in Bashasha, a small township in the Jimma Zone of Oromia region in western Ethiopia. He was born to a Muslim father, Ahmed Ali, and a Christian mother, Tizita Wolde, who was his father's 4th wife. He is the youngest of Ahmed Ali's 13 children. Abiy got involved in politics at theÃâà...
africanews
April 18, 2018
The house is also expected to approve the draft bill prepared to reform the structure, power and duties of executive bodies. Ahead of the imminent cabinet reshuffle, Oromia regional government made some changes to its structure, appointing two federal ministers to positions in the regional government.
africanews
April 17, 2018
Moyale is located in the Oromia regional state whose administrative & security bureau confirmed the incident and subsequently blamed it on security forces armed by the adjoining Ethio-Somali regional state. Tensions between the two regional states has often been pinned on resource control. The lastÃâà...
africanews
April 16, 2018
Breaking – #TayeDendea, #Oromia region justice bureau PR head and #SeyoumTeshome, Univ. lecturer & blogger, who were held under the #StateofEmergency, have just been released from the #AddisAbeba police commission prison facility, a.k.a Sostegna. #Ethiopia pic.twitter.com/ChtpBExGp3.
africanews
April 10, 2018
In early moves of the Abiy tenure, internet has been restored across the country and a group of rearrested journalists and detainees have been released. He has also started peace efforts between the Oromia region and Ethiopia-Somali region where clashes claimed hundreds of lives displacing close to aÃâà...
Eyewitness News
April 9, 2018
Violence along the border of the Horn of Africa countries Somali and Oromiya provinces first erupted in September last year, with both regions blaming the other for the unrest. Since September, officials in Oromiya have repeatedly blamed raids by a paramilitary force from the Somali region as causes of theÃâà...
africanews
April 8, 2018
Violence along the border of the Horn of Africa country's Somali and Oromia provinces first erupted in September last year, with both regions blaming the other for the unrest. The area has been plagued by sporadic clashes for decades. A referendum held in 2004 to determine the status of disputedÃâà...
africanews
March 7, 2018
Today (March 7, 2018) is the final day of a social shutdown in the Oromia region, Ethiopia's largest. The three-day measure was called by activists and youth to protest a current state of emergency (SOE) imposed on February 16. The SOE was announced a day after the resignation of PM HailemariamÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 7, 2018
Following the news of the state of emergency, which the speaker of the house of people's representatives (Ethiopian parliament) said was approved by the majority in the house, albeit a "mathematical error" which led top the speaker to apologize, protests have flared up in various cities across OromiaÃâà...
ZNBC
March 6, 2018
Across Ethiopia's Oromia region, shops and markets are closed and transport paralysed as protesters begin the first of three days of a boycott called by activists. In some places, public ... Oromia has been the epicentre of anti-government protests, which erupted in Ethiopia in 2015. The government admitsÃâà...
africanews
March 6, 2018
The Oromia region has been the heartbeat of anti-government protests that started in 2015 through 2016 till a state or emergency was declared in October that year. The measure was lifted in August 2017 but has been reinstated six-months on in a security move according to the government.
FRANCE 24
March 6, 2018
The Tigrayans are a much smaller ethnic group than the Oromo who are from Ethiopia's most populous Oromiya region and have long complained of being sidelined from political power. Their criticism of a government development plan for the capital Addis Ababa in 2015 sparked wider anti-governmentÃâà...
africanews
March 6, 2018
The social shutdown prompted by Ethiopian activists against a recently imposed state of emergency has entered day two with full compliance. The three-day strike called by pro-democracy activists and Qeerroo – youth – in the region is expected to end tomorrow. Towns across the Oromia regional state,Ãâà...
africanews
February 26, 2018
Members of the Ethiopian parliament have been notified to reconvene from their recess for an emergency meeting this coming Friday , according to a local news portal, Addis Standard (AS). The news was also carried by state affiliated FanaBC, which reported that the legislators are expected to report forÃâà...
OPride.com
February 13, 2018
(OPride)—Ethiopia is rocked by widespread protests and reports of killings as a three-day stay at home strike and market boycott continues for the second day across the restive Oromia State. Security forces killed at least 17 people in two separate incidents of violence in Hararghe and Bale zones.
