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This is the first edition of OPride.com’s weekly round up of news and analyses from around the Horn of Africa. Each Friday, our editorial intern [...]

(OPride) – Our roundup of the biggest headlines from and about the Horn of Africa region for the week ending 6/21. Mebrat Tekle curated this wee [...]

Barclays Bank to cut ties with Dahabshiil Barclays Bank announced it would no longer be doing business with Dahabshiil, the Somali money Transfer Com [...]

Eritreans detained in Israel stage hunger strike Eritreans held at the Saharonim detention facility in southern Israel continued their hunger strike [...]

[...] (OPride) – At least 100 Oromo refugees living in Cairo gathered outside the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for [...]

[...] (OPride) – UNHCR is planning to temporarily relocate Oromo refugees to a safer neighborhood within Cairo from their current residences, activists said. Oromo [...]

By Mohammed Ademo (OPride) – An Oromo interpreter for UNHCR in Cairo was beaten, denied police services, and subsequently charged extra for med [...]

[...] (OPride) – As Oromo refugees protested mistreatment by Egyptian nationals for the second day, some of them camping [...]

[...] rally held on Sunday. At least 10,000 people participated in the procession that took place in Addis Ababa, according to Reuters. [...]

[...] in Ethiopia from his cell in Kaliti, a notorious prison on the outskirts of the capital, Addis Ababa. [...]

[...] was among the pioneer founders of the Macha Tulama Association (MTA) passed away at his home in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Tuesday from heart complications. He was 80. [...]

[...] Tafara, famed Oromo singer and songwriter, died on Mar. 22 at Police Referral Hospital in Addis Ababa after long illness with blood cancer. Her daughter confirmed the news, adding the body is [...]

[...] and Ethiopian activists quarreled over Al Jazeera's decision to address the plight of Oromo people during its flagship social media show, The Stream earlier this week. [...]

[...] , and politics. His work and life reflect his pride in, and devotion to, the empowerment of the Oromo people. His uplifting lyrics and eclectic style will continue to inspire for generations to come. [...]

[...] by Ebissa Ragassa The once suppressed truth about Oromo people finally reached a global audience on June 25 when Al Jazeera’s The Stream aired, “ [...]

[...] by Mohammed Ademo (OPride) – The history of the Oromo people, Ethiopia’s single largest ethnic group, is marked by socio-political oppression and a [...]

By Firew Kebede Tiba, PhD* This Op-Ed is an outgrowth of my brief response, on a social media, to Magarsa Muhktar’s “Ethiopia's Beleaguer [...]

by Mohammed Ademo (OPride) – In early 1960s, Oromo dissidents from the Bale province in southeastern Ethiopia organized a small band of combata [...]

By Naomi Y (OPride) — Discussions about "unity” and identity has never been easy in the context of Ethiopian political discourse. Differe [...]

[...] (OPride) – A recent massive brush fire in the Illu Abba Boora zone of Oromia region, Ethiopia has wiped out a sizable portion of the UNESCO-registered Yayu Coffee Forest [...]

[...] mass killing and displacements of Oromos in East Hararghe, West Wollega and Moyale areas of Oromia region, and also free Oromo political prisoners, activists said. [...]

[...] 160 years of age, Dhaqabo Ebba, a retired farmer and well-known community elder from the Oromia region in Ethiopia, could be the oldest living person ever. [...]

[...] More than two decades after it became a working and instructional language in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, Afaan Oromo – the native tongue of over 40 million Oromo people and Africa’s [...]

[...] (OPride) – A U.S. panel on religious freedom on Monday called on Ethiopian government to release 29 religious freedom advocates, including members of the Committee of 17, [...]

[...] (OPride) — The Ethiopian government uses its monopoly over the telecommunications system to curtail the right to privacy, [...]

[...] The Ethiopian government faced fresh scrutiny over its dismal human rights record on Tuesday at the United Nations [...]