Oromo people in Minnesota are often confused with those from Somalia, despite coming from a different country, speaking a different language and having a different culture.

The Oromo have been subject to human rights violations and discrimination under three successive regimes in Ethiopia, according to a 2009 report by U.S.-based Advocates for Human Rights group: the ...

Feyisa Lilesa: Oromo People Are Still Suffering in Ethiopia and the World Must Do More to Help Them. Published May 08, 2017 at 4:36 AM EDT Updated May 13, 2017 at 5:16 AM EDT.

The Oromo countrymen, a cook, a cab driver and a teacher, pull off chunks of injera, Ethiopia's crepelike flatbread, and use it to sop up a traditional lunch of goat and vegetables, washing it ...

Editor’s Note: Awol K. Allo is LSE Fellow in Human Rights at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights. He writes on the issues behind several months of protests by Ethiopia’s largest ethnic ...

Earlier this summer, a survey conducted in partnership between the Oromo Cultural Institute of Minnesota (OCIM), the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation and the West Bank Community Coalition, showed that ...

Rebels from Ethiopia's Oromiya region accused the government on Wednesday of launching a military offensive against them after a first round of peace talks ended earlier this month without a deal.

Many celebrating at Irreecha were at pains to avoid discussing the thornier issue of politics but echoed wider concerns about Oromo identity and their place in Ethiopia. “We can’t say the question of ...

Thousands of people from the Oromo, Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, celebrate their thanksgiving festival in Bishoftu city amid tight security after the authorities said they had seized weapons ...

More than 52 people were killed in a stampede in central Ethiopia after police fired warning shots at a holy festival Sunday, Communications Minister Getachew Reda said.

The Ethiopian government has once again failed to reach an agreement with Oromo rebel forces, with peace talks in Tanzania reaching an inconclusive end Tuesday.