Ethiopia’s ethnofederal system was designed to counter coercive homogenization, but, as in the former Yugoslavia, it left minorities tragically exposed…
Now at the helm of national power, Oromo elites need to behave like representatives of a majority group.
The evidence also suggests the area was majority Tigrinya speaking prior to the federal era.
Efforts to resolve the dispute, including the 2014 agreement, have failed, and so new approaches need to be employed.
Hundreds dead following Oromo Liberation Army and allied rebels’ attack.
International focus on the war in northern Ethiopia has obscured state violence elsewhere.
After initially fighting for freedom and then against it, TPLF is now back at fighting for freedom, or maybe not.
In this episode of the Ethiopia Insight Election Project podcast series, Juweria Ali asks Tsegaye Birhanu, a former political science…
Xiyyeeffannoon muummicha Ministeeraa Abiy Ahmed tokkummaa ta’us, eenyummaa siyaasa Itoophiyaa fi kan Oromoo walitti araarsuu sababa dadhabeef, waadaa seene sanaaf…