First it was rebel groups using abduction for political aims, but in a broken economy collecting ransoms is seen as easy money and now anyone can be a target The gunmen came for Alemetu when she was ...

Thousands of businesses remained closed Thursday in Oromia, Ethiopia’s largest region, as shopkeepers protested against a new tax. Small business owners across the region have shuttered their premises ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Intense fighting between Ethiopian government forces and Oromo Liberation Army rebels in the country’s Oromia region has led to “several dozen” casualties in the past week, ...

More than 50 people died in Ethiopia's Oromia region Sunday after a stampede at a religious festival, which the government has blamed on "violent forces" but protesters have said was due to police ...

The ambush by the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), which is designated a terrorist organisation by Addis Ababa, occurred last week in the North Shewa district west of the capital, the Ethiopian Human ...

Malaria outbreak occurs at time when nearly all of Begi district's 42 existing health facilities in conflict-torn West Wollega zone have been looted or damaged Ethiopia declared a malaria outbreak in ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — As one deadly conflict in Ethiopia begins to calm, another is growing, challenging a government that’s eager to persuade the international community to lift sanctions and revive ...

Ethiopian government forces killed four people and wounded 18 others Thursday in the town of Soddo in the restive Oromia region. Residents of Soddo and surrounding villages stopped eight trucks ...

At least 50 people died in ethnic violence in Ethiopia’s Oromia region this month, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said on Wednesday. The state-affiliated but independent human rights ...

This much is known: tension between the Oromia and Somali regions of Ethiopia turned deadly last week in clashes that claimed the lives of at least 18 people in the town of Awaday. Many things remain ...

The nature of this article is such that it violates restrictions placed on the media by the Electoral Commission of Ethiopia with effect on June, 17 under a four-day "Period of Silence". Prime ...