Ethiopia is due to hold elections in 2026. But will they be free and fair? Since 1995, Ethiopia has held elections every five ...

Gardner’s account of the rise of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is essential reading for those interested in understanding how individual ambition and structural factors combine to mold a ...

Gada is a traditional system of governance of the Oromo people in Ethiopia developed from knowledge gained over generations. It regulates political, economic, social and religious activity serving as ...

The Fano insurgency is taking place in a territory three times the size of Tigray, stretching the army’s resources.

A loose collection of rebel groups is challenging Ethiopia’s military in one of the country’s most populous and powerful ...

and had expressed its determination to achieve a "peaceful political settlement". Abiy is of Oromo descent but the wider community, Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, has long complained of ...

This op-ed piece does not comprehensively appraise Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s rule in the last seven years, it does provide a cursory look ...

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’ ...

Ethiopia was led by the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, a coalition of four ethnic-based political parties representing Tigray, Amhara, Oromo, and Southern nations ...

At least 55 people were killed during a protest at a thanksgiving festival in Ethiopia's Oromia region ... This was a BBC News Afaan Oromo production. Read more about the new Horn of Africa ...