News Ethiopia Oromia: WFP Ethiopia Country Brief, April 2019
WFP continues to support targeted supplementary feeding programme for treatment of moderate acute malnutrition among conflict-induced IDPs in Oromia Region and Southern Nations and Nationalities ...
News Ethiopia Oromia: Political shake-up and localism can edge Ethiopia forwards
Would it not be appropriate for it to also be driven from the grassroots? There is, after all, a strong tradition of capable local self-rule in Ethiopia. Oromia has its well-known Gadaa system and in ...
News Ethiopia Oromia: Ethiopia PM launches 4 billion tree planting project, starting in Oromia
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed over the weekend kicked off what is meant to be a mission to plant four billion trees across the country – Africa’s second most populous nation. The initiative ...
News Ethiopia Oromia: Ethnic violence in Ethiopia has forced nearly 3 million people from their homes
Similar disputes have flared on Oromia’s eastern border with Ethiopia’s Somali region. In southern Ethiopia, Guji and Gedeo groups have periodically clashed over access to productive farmland, but the ...
News Ethiopia Oromia: Ethiopia: Abiy's first year as prime minister, review of freedom of expression
Many blogs and websites run by Ethiopians in the diaspora were blocked inside Ethiopia. The government pressured satellite companies to drop the US-based Oromia Media Network (OMN), which disseminated ...
News Ethiopia Oromia: In Ethiopia, a community leans on customs to save an antelope from extinction
SENKELE, Ethiopia — In the tall-grass woodland of ... Today it rests on 58 square kilometers (22 square miles) of land shared between Oromia and the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples ...
News Ethiopia Oromia: Under Abiy, Ethiopia’s media have more freedom but challenges remain
At a press conference, journalists from state media and the Oromia Media Network, an outlet previously banned and accused of terrorism, sat side by side. Mesud Gebeyehu, a lawyer who heads the ...
News Ethiopia Oromia: 'Better to kill us': Ethiopian residents fear evictions from satellite towns
There would be no compensation. The news sparked worry and anger among residents, many of whom had arrived in the boomtown in Ethiopia's Oromia region a decade or so ago, but never formally ...
