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As Atrocity Crimes Rise in Oromia, Security Assistance and Aid Keep Flowing...
(Oromo Press) — In Oromia, Ethiopia, and in the Diasporas where significant numbers of Oromo people live, the first year anniversary of the Oromo mass uprising against the repressive policies of the...
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Exclusive: Al-Shabab moves in on central Somalia
As Somalia prepares for polls later this year al-Shabab quietly takes over towns left by withdrawing Ethiopian troops. Hamza Mohamed Mogadishu, Somalia – Somalia-based rebel group al-Shabab has been...
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OBS TV Journalist Abdi Gada arrested for broadcasting Oromo cultural news
Oromo Broadcast Service (OBS) TV journalist Abdi Gada arrested in Ethiopia. OBS TV is not even a news media, it is rather a history or discovery news channel. The TV never got involved into...
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Can Kenya close Dadaab, the world’s biggest refugee camp?
By Alastair LeitheadBBC News, Africa correspondent, Dadaab and Kismayo Kenya’s announcement that Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp, would close at the end of this month has encouraged thousands...
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Ethiopia Charged 22 Individuals with Terrorism
Prosecutors say the 22 suspects were working for Kenya and Norway-based Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) Addis Abeba Nov. 14, 2016 (Addis Standard) – Prosecutors have today charged 22 individuals at the...
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BBC World Service announces biggest expansion ‘since the 1940s’
The World Service has been called the jewel in the BBC crown (BBC News) — The BBC World Service will launch 11 new language services as part of its biggest expansion “since the 1940s”, the corporation...
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The miscarriage of “Oromo Leadership Convention” in Atlanta
By Abbaa Ormaa All is not lost for the Atlanta Oromo Leadership Convention. Regardless of whether it is a success or a failure, depending on where one stands on the Oromo political spectrum, it is yet...
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Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure
Source: Freedom House Download Full document App blocking aimed at protests, expressions of dissent Authoritarian regimes most frequently restricted communication apps to prevent or quell...
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The negative consequences of the Tigre colonialism on our ability to choose...
By Rundassa Asheetee Hundee Times and circumstances seem to force us repeat the mistakes of the generation before us. Since the Tigre colonialism began in 1991, many Oromos have turned a deaf ear to...
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A Year On Since the Oromo Resistance Began:- A Wake Up Call for All Peoples...
By Denboba Natie, November 17, 2016 A new wave of Oromo national resistance struggle begun in November 2015. It has dramatically changed the political landscape of Ethiopia. The nation remains...
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Urgent Alert: Cholera and Draught devastating the Somalis in Ogaden
Ogaden News Agency (ONA) ONLF Press Release The Deyr rains have failed in Ogaden and food stocks are dwindling very fast and livestock is starting to die in many parts of the Ogaden. This is further...
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Ethiopian newspaper editor, bloggers caught in worsening crackdown
Members of the Zone 9 blogging group. (Endalkachew H/Michael) Nairobi, November 17, 2016 (CPJ) –Ethiopia should immediately release all journalists detained amid an intensifying crackdown on the...
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Ethiopia’s crackdown has seen 11,000 people arrested
(The World Weekly) — Officials in Ethiopia have announced that some 11,607 people have been arrested since a state of emergency was declared in the country early last month. This is the government’s...
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INTERGENERATIONAL SIIQQEE CONVERSATIONS, EP. 01
by Elella Daba (Siiqee Chronicles) — This conversation was recorded during a preliminary meeting between Aaddee Kuwee Kumsa, Ayantu Ayana and I. We recorded our conversation in order to prepare and...
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Ethiopia’s internet crackdown hurts everyone
(IRIN News) — Ethiopia has never been an easy place to operate. But a six-month state of emergency, combined with internet and travel restrictions imposed in response to a wave of anti-government...
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Rights group blasts Ethiopia journalist arrests
Ethiopia ranked fourth on the CPJ’s list of the 10 most censored countries in 2014, and is the third-worst jailer of journalists in Africa, according to the group’s “prison census” (AFP...
View ArticleThese Al-Shabab fighters are taking over towns in central Somalia without...
These Al-Shabab fighters are taking over towns in central Somalia without firing a single shot. pic.twitter.com/QPu1soP5Xx — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) November 18, 2016
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‘Anything that flies is an enemy’: Filming al-Shabab with a drone
Al Jazeera’s Hamza Mohamed wanted to film al-Shabab fighters in their training camp using a drone – it was a risky and delicate move. by Hamza Mohamed (Aljazeera) — Hamza Mohamed is a producer for...
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Ethiopia’s crisis — Things fall apart: will the centre hold?
RENÉ LEFORT Oct.2,2016.Ethiopian soldiers try to stop protesters in Bishoftu, in the Oromia region of Ethiopia before visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.STR/Press Association. All rights...
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TPLF’s Mockery, Celebrating Nations and Nationalities Day
HRM (Harari Revival Movement) press release Since TPLF/EPRDF took power, it was trying to depict itself as a vanguard of nations and nationalities (ethnic groups) of Ethiopia. According to TPLF...
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