NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s state-appointed rights commission on Wednesday called for an investigation into the killing of a prominent opposition figure recently released from prison. Bate ...

More than 300 foreigners were arrested in Nairobi for being in the country illegally. Majority of those arrested were Ethiopians and Somali nationals. The 346 were arrested in Eastleigh, Huruma, ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Intense fighting between Ethiopian government forces and Oromo Liberation Army rebels in the country’s Oromia region has led to “several dozen” casualties in the past week, ...

The killing of Bate Urgessa, a prominent leader of Ethiopia’s opposition Oromo Liberation Front, has put Ethiopia in the spotlight, attracting widespread condemnation and triggering calls for ...

Ethiopia’s government has signed a deal to end hostilities with the Oromo Liberation Front, which the Ethiopian government had previously labeled a terrorist group. The Oromo Liberation Front has been ...

Five senior members of an opposition party representing Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, the Oromo, have been detained in a wave of political arrests following protests last week which left at least ...

Soon after the talks ended on 3 May, the OLA – an outlawed splinter group of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) opposition party – accused federal authorities of launching a renewed offensive. Merera ...

Remedan Yuya fled Ethiopia to escape the hardship and strife brought upon the Oromo people by the Ethiopian government. Dr. Negasso Gidada, an Oromo himself, served as president of that government ...

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In addition to recently striking two Ethiopian outposts inside Somalia right on the border with Ethiopia, Shabaab also launched a three-day incursion into Ethiopia itself. On the Ethiopian side, ...

NAIROBI, KenyaNAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s state-appointed rights commission on Wednesday called for an investigation into the killing of a prominent opposition figure recently released from prison.