January 15, 2016 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Ethiopian government announced that it has abandoned the “Addis Ababa Integrated Development Master Plan” aimed to expand the capital, Addis Ababa, to parts of the ...

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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian government forces have killed more than 80 people in the past four weeks in protests in the country’s Oromia region, an Ethiopian opposition party charged Wednesday.

(Nairobi) – Ethiopian security forces are violently suppressing the largely peaceful protests in the Oromia region that began in November 2015. Almost daily accounts of killings and arbitrary arrests ...

Since the Ethiopian government announced plans to expand the territory of the capital Addis Ababa in April 2014, the country's largest region, Oromia, has been racked with protests that have led to ...

What triggered the Oromia protests? The initial trigger was the Addis Ababa Master Plan, a very ambitious growth plan, which proposed to expand the municipal boundaries of Addis Ababa twentyfold in ...

Workers are pictured at the Entoto Park in the city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on September 22, 2020. EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP For 10 years, Daniel, Bizayehu, Getachew and others have been boycotting ...

After the Addis Ababa master plan had originally been announced in 2014, protests occurred throughout Oromia, which security forces dispersed using live ammunition, killing at least several dozen ...