Qilinto prison fire reignites one long suppressed in me: My message to...
By Edao Dawano (OPride) — On the morning of Sept. 3, eyewitnesses in Addis Ababa reported a flurry of gun shots at Qilinto prison, a remand center on the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital. That was...
View ArticleAnalysis: Perpetual Poverty in the Shadow of Ethiopia’s ‘Safety Net’
Tesfalem Waldyes & Kalkidan Yibeltal (Addis standard) — On June 28 2016, hundreds of people in Jido Kombolocha, a small town located in East Shoa Zone of the Oromia regional state 207 km south...
View ArticleOromia’s moment of truth: The Great Oromo generation and the Oromia Flag
By Leenjiso Horo, September, 2016 “Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.” —Frantz Fanon The Great Oromo Generation of 1960s The great Oromo...
View ArticleThe ‘Ethiopian Spring’: “Killing is not an answer to our grievances”
By RENÉ LEFORT 9 September 2016 (Open Democracy) — There is every sign that Ethiopia is plunging into a crisis whose scale, intensity, and multiple and interdependent drivers are unprecedented since...
View ArticleThe Amhara Identity: Resurgence from tactical self-hide or manifestation of...
By Geda Moti (PhD) I read interview article of Prof Mesfin W/M (http://www.mereja.com/amharic/512100) and article by Girma Kassa (http://www.ethiomedia.com/1016notes/7405.html) with concern of its...
View ArticleEmpire of bleeding and thrombosis kept under bad physicians and wrong remedies
By Dr. Baro Keno Deressa Dr. Baro Keno Deressa The Oromo people are managed to unite under their vanguard organization OLF to fight for the same purpose (eradicating colonization). The formation of...
View Article#OromoProtests: The “Oromo Street” and Afria’s Counter-Protest State
Etana Habte, Special to Addis Standard Protests in Ethiopia, Reuters (Addis Standard) — In the first part of this series, I explored in historic perspectives (particularly with developments in Oromia...
View ArticleWho is Pathogen?
By Dr. Baro Keno Deressa Mr. Getachew Reda (spokesperson of TPLF government) In medical terminology: Pathogen is an agent causing disease or illness to its host. Pathogens are mostly microscopic, such...
View ArticleWhat We Had, What was Taken from Us, What We Will Reclaim
The Oromo Irreecha Festival Revisited and Reinterpreted By Mekuria Bulcha, PhD Introduction Once again the Oromo are preparing for the celebrations of the Irreecha festival at Lake Arsadee in Bishoftu...
View ArticleEthiopian empire needs curative surgery instead of palliative one
Dr. Baro Keno Deressa TPLF-agazi truck-Irreecha Massacre of Oromo Civilians (comparable act of France-Nice ISIS terror attack) People asks OPDO where are you????? The colonial ruling system in...
View ArticleBeyond the Bushoftu Massacre: the war on Orommuma and Oromo Unity
By J. Ebisa Like millions of Oromo and non-Oromo worldwide, I watched the recent Irreecha Oromo Thanksgiving festival where hundreds of Oromo, about 700 according to sources, were gunned down,...
View ArticleIs Oromo-Amhara solidarity a myth or reality?
By J. Ebisa Introduction The recently discussed Amhara-Oromo solidarity, by some, does not mean that Amhara and Oromo have the same historical memories, experience, and aspirations. It is true that...
View ArticleCNN Exposed – Emmy Winning Former CNN Journalist Blows The Whistle: CNN is...
Note: The #OromoProtests and #OromoRevolution that has been given wide written, visual and social media coverage all over the world has been denied attention & coverage by the CNN. The following...
View ArticleThe Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Rangeland Management in Yabello Woreda,...
Dika Godana G*, Department of soil resource and watershed management, Gambella University, Ethiopia Source: Arts and Social Sciences Journal also in PDF Introduction Background and justification...
View ArticleReimagining Global Social Movements in the Perspective of Egalitarian Democracy
By Asafa Jalata, PhD Abstract The analysis starts by offering a critique of the existing social movement literature and by suggesting the integration of critical theories of knowledge with theories...
View ArticleThe Big Debate – Beyond Assimilation and Accommodation: The Resurgence of...
Ezekiel Gebissa, Special to Addis Standard Ethiopia’s political history of the last half-century has been the pregressive unfolding of the twinned ideas of “land to the tiller question” and the...
View ArticleGenocide in the making in Oromia
Brief account on the Oromo protest from Nov. 2015 – Nov. 2016 By Tarekegn Chimdi (PhD) Background The Oromo people constitute over 40% of the total population and a single largest national group in...
View ArticleQilinto prison fire reignites one long suppressed in me: My message to...
By Edao Dawano (OPride) — On the morning of Sept. 3, eyewitnesses in Addis Ababa reported a flurry of gun shots at Qilinto prison, a remand center on the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital. That was...
View ArticleAuto-immune diseases of the colonizers immunotherapy
Dr. Baro Keno Deressa Grand #OromoProtests Mogor town, West Shewa, August 6, 2016 Immune system disorders cause abnormally low activity or over activity of the immune system. In cases of immune system...
View ArticleBehind the Violence in Ethiopia
Note: Dear Readers, this is just to let our readers understand how the bloody struggle and heavy price that the Oromo people have been paying is sabotaged by western writers and their media outlets....
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