The Tigray People’s Liberation Front was the most influential party within the coalition. However, in 2018, when the Prosperity Party came into power, the front lost its important role in government.

Such representation of Oromo lands as "underused," "no-man's land," and "empty ... of the 1984 famine--an event that devastated human beings and livestock in Northern Ethiopia. The third wave of ...

[Photo: Reuters] The Oromo, Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, have long complained of their exclusion from political power. Many welcomed the 2018 appointment of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed but now ...

During the Tigray War, Amhara groups largely allied with the central government and the Oromo sided with the Tigrayans ... and South Sudan. Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan have been locked in a ...

The week-long Gada ceremony, which ended on Sunday, sees the official transfer of power from one customary ruler to his ...

Lema Tefera’s voice broke as he described losing four children to malaria in just one month – deaths that could likely have been prevented if not ...

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 ...

Ethiopia and Eritrea tensions risk direct conflict Horn of Africa region hit hard by humanitarian strife Factional split in Ethiopia's Tigray region at heart of crisis NAIROBI, March 13 (Reuters ...

PP stands for the country’s ruling Prosperity Party. Finfinnee is the Oromo name for Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. The ...

Qumbi recalled that in 2002, when a similar drought hit the area, organizations such as the United Nations (UN) and Care Ethiopia provided aid ... in the conflict between government forces and the ...

There were seventeen detained journalists in Ethiopia in late October ... Five journalists from the pro-Oromo weekly Urji remained in detention since their arrest in the last quarter of 1997 ...