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The Qeerroo movement was an expression of youthful anger: anger at the landlessness and joblessness that many young Oromos faced; at what they saw as the marginalisation of the Oromo by Ethiopia’s ...
Claims of the Oromummaa struggle that was used to bring Oromo fanatics to power that he does not want to throw away includes, “The Ethiopian colonial terrorism and genocide that started during the ...
The Oromo Protest movement takes the name Qeerroo/Qarree from the terminology used to describe the age group of young unmarried men and women in the Oromo system of indigenous democracy, the Gaddaa ...
Kan Itoophiyaa gaggeessaa jiran, MM Abiy Ahimed Saba Oromoo keessaa erga bahanii dargaggooni Oromoo bosona jiranii fi ABO-WBOtti makaman maaliif har'as qabsoo hidhannoo gaggeessu?
In the case of Oromia, the Qeerroo movement trusted in the OPDO which changed its name to the Oromo Democratic Party (ODP) in 2018 believing that Abiy would be willing to facilitate a founding ...
Oromiya, which surrounds Addis Ababa, the capital, is home to Ethiopia's largest ethnic Oromo group and more than a third of the country's 110 million people.
"The Oromo people come to the lake to give thanks to god for the change of the rainy season, of winter to spring," said Sabkebar Gezu, a 35-year-old small business owner.
At the violent core of Oromo nationalism sits the OLF, regarded (erroneously) after their return to Ethiopia in 2018, as a legitimate political party, and the OLA, officially labelled as terrorists.
"We denounce the coordinated attacks against the Oromo by the federal government and the Amhara forces," said one of the organizers and leader of the Qeerroo movement, representing Oromo youth.
Bara 2018 dura yeroo guutuu Oromiyaatti fincilli Qeerroo Oromo Protest gaggeeffamaa ture, dargaggoota heddutu ajjeeffame.
The Qeerroo/Qarree (Oromo youth) movement got involved between 2014 and 2018. This eventually dislodged Tigrayan leadership from Ethiopian central power in 2018.
The Oromo youth were intent on implementing the principles of democracy in Ethiopia. Their hard-won opening of the democratic space was, however, systematically sabotaged by Abiy Ahmed who had already ...