"They feel they have no choice but to go abroad and change their lives." Many Oromos who choose to migrate use the so-called Eastern Route, seeking to cross the Red Sea or the Gulf of Aden into Yemen, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

I specialise in Ethiopian politics and federalism, and recently published a paper on the country's electoral ... In Oromia ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...