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.

The second wave of settlers came during the mid-1980s under the military rule as part of the government's response to the 1984/85 famine that devastated northern parts of Ethiopia. As a result, ...

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

[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 ...

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 ...

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 Oromo Cultural Institute of Minnesota began a survey this month to determine how many Oromo people — the largest ethnic group in the Horn of Africa, especially Ethiopia — live in Minneapolis’ ...

“The militia group has taken advantage of close family and cultural ties between the Borana in Kenya and Oromo of Ethiopia to infiltrate and hide among the populations in Marsabit and Isiolo ...

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 ...

PP stands for the country’s ruling Prosperity Party. Finfinnee is the Oromo name for Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. The post is accompanied by photos of Merara Gudina, Prime Minister Abiy ...