A recent report by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has drawn sharp attention to the country’s fragile civil ...

Residents report that more than 25 people, including women and children, were killed in an attack in Nono district, West Shewa Zone of the Oromia region, on 19 October, 2025. Locals have attributed ...

who was attending the festival and had traveled from the West Shewa Zone in the country’s central Oromia region. Representing approximately a third of Ethiopia’s nearly 130 million population, the ...

Tens of thousands of Ethiopians, predominantly from the Oromo ethnic group, gathered in the capital Saturday for the vibrant Irreecha festival, a thanksgiving celebration that this year underscored a ...

“Mootummaan filannoo gochuuf humna guutuu qaba” kan jedhan MM Abiy, filannoon biyyaalessaa 7ffaa filannoo fooyyee akka ta’ufi yeroosaa eeggatee akka adeemsifamu dubbataniiru.

“Mootummaan filannoo gochuuf humna guutuu qaba” kan jedhan MM Abiy, filannoon biyyaalessaa 7ffaa filannoo fooyyee akka ta’ufi ...

In search of recognition, a cultural group that feels like it’s been undercounted in Minnesota is looking to calculate its exact population in the state. The Oromo Cultural Institute of Minnesota ...

Tens of thousands of vibrantly dressed Ethiopians descended on downtown Addis Ababa for an annual thanksgiving festival this weekend. Irreecha is celebrated by the Oromo, Ethiopia's largest ethnic ...

More than 20 civilians were killed by armed men on Sunday in Oromia, an Ethiopian region that has been enduring attacks from armed groups for several years, two local civil servants told AFP on ...

Former Oromocto First Nation chief Shelley Sabattis and eight other people will stand trial before a judge and jury next fall on charges of assault and breaking and entering. The nine people are ...

Abstract: We present a novel Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) dataset for the Oromo language, a widely spoken language in Ethiopia and neighboring regions. The dataset was collected through a ...