Young Oromos are leaving the region in droves, risking torture and death to cross the Red Sea in search of a better life.

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 ...

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

Sometimes, as recently in the Tigray region, it explodes into war. The Amhara, Ethiopia’s second-largest ethnic group, once ...

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

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 ...

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, nationalities ...

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 ...

The OLA says it is fighting for the self-determination of Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, the Oromo. It has been classified as a terrorist organisation by the federal parliament and operates in ...

My aim was to see whether Ethiopia was moving towards political pluralism, where diverse voices are represented in government decision-making, or if it remained authoritarian. I conclude that the ...