Feyisa Lilesa: Oromo People Are Still Suffering in Ethiopia and the World Must Do More to Help Them. Published May 08, 2017 at 4:36 AM EDT Updated May 13, 2017 at 5:16 AM EDT.

The Oromo make up well over a third of Ethiopia’s 100 million people. Historically, Oromos have been pushed to the margin of the country’s political and social life and rendered unworthy of ...

Young people don’t see learning the language as useful, so knowledge of Oromo culture has waned among those younger than 40, he said. “There’s concern about our children,” he said.

The Oromo are the single largest ethnic group in Ethiopia and East Africa, comprising more than 35 percent of Ethiopia’s 100 million people.

Oromo people mourn a suspected protester who was allegedly shot dead by Ethiopian security forces, Oromia region, Ethiopia, December 17, 2015.

The Oromo people will win their freedom. Until victory is achieved and justice is served for those who shed their blood in the merciless killings, I will continue to resist and stand with my people.

“My people are getting killed in Ethiopia–mothers, fathers, children. That makes me cry,” said Samira Ahmed who wipes her eyes while listening to a speaker at a rally of the Oromo community ...

Sisai Ibssa, a longtime Washington resident who championed the cause of nationalism for the Oromo people of the Horn of Africa, died Aug. 20 of a heart attack at his home. He was 60. Mr. Ibssa ...

A crowd of 1,500 people calling for human rights and democracy in Ethiopia walked onto Interstate Hwy. 35W in downtown Minneapolis on Friday evening to protest that nation's treatment of the Oromo ...

The survey talked to Oromo people living in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood — an area with one of the highest concentrations of East African immigrants in the state.