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Horn of Africa This Week 27 Aug 2013 | 10:09 am
Oromo activist dies in prison The death of Oromo activist Tesfahun Chemeda in prison earlier this week underscores the appaling state of human rights and abuse of political prisoners in donor darling...
Oromo activist, Tesfahun Chemeda, dies in prison while serving life sentence 25 Aug 2013 | 06:42 am
(OPride) – Engineer Tesfahun Chemeda, a fierce Oromo rights advocate and a former UNHCR recognized refugee, died yesterday of undisclosed cause at Kaliti prison, where he was serving a life sentence u...
Horn of Africa This Week 19 Aug 2013 | 06:45 am
Doctors Without Borders withdraws from Somalia The International aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) announced in a short video statement last week it would close all programs and pull out of So...
Minneapolis College the first to offer Afaan Oromo in the U.S. 16 Aug 2013 | 03:25 am
by Arijeta Lajka (OPride) – The Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC) will be the first college in the U.S. to offer an Afaan Oromo course this September, the instructor said.
Oromo journalist, Lalise Wodajo, reunited with family after 8 years 13 Aug 2013 | 08:35 am
by Sinke Wesho (OPride) – Jiitu Wakjira was only five years old when Ethiopian security forces took away her father, Dhabasa Wakjira, from their home in April 2004. Jiitu understood very little at th...
A lonely Eid for one Borana woman in Chicago 12 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
by Kadiro A. Elemo (OPride) – “I am a Muslim,” began Halima Qancaro, a distressed Borana woman now in her 70s, two days after she spent the Eid-ul-Fitr festival marking the end of Ramadan holed up, a...
Ethiopia: widespread arrests reported after Eid protests 8 Aug 2013 | 01:38 pm
(OPride) – Hundreds arrested, beaten, and tear gassed Thursday morning following nationwide Eid day protests, Muslim rights activists said.
Horn of Africa This Week 7 Aug 2013 | 10:52 am
Ethiopia on findings of the UN Monitoring group Dina Mufti, a spokesperson for Ethiopia’s foreign minister, addressed the latest report of the UN Monitoring group on Eritrea and Somalia underscoring ...
Ethiopia: Scores dead in crackdown on Muslim protesters ahead of Eid 4 Aug 2013 | 09:59 am
(OPride) – At least 11 people were killed, several others wounded, and scores arrested on Saturday in a clash between government forces and Muslim activists, eyewitnesses and social media reports said...
Typologies of National-isms in Ethiopia 1 Aug 2013 | 11:35 pm
By Ayele Gelan (OPride) – Over the last several weeks, a lot has been said on both sides of the “I am Oromo first” and “I am Ethiopian first” divide. But very little about why people choose those pos...
