Daily Archives: March 13, 2018

SQ-Sagalee Qeerroo Bilisummaa Oromoo Qophii Bitootessa 9,2018

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The Guardian:- ‘Freedom!’: the mysterious movement that brought Ethiopia to a standstill

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Qeerroo – young Oromo activists – drove the mass strike that helped topple the prime minister of one of Africa’s most autocratic governments

Supporters of Bekele Gerba, secretary general of the Oromo Federalist Congress, celebrate his release from prison, in Adama, Ethiopia on 14 February 2018.

Supporters of Bekele Gerba, secretary general of the Oromo Federalist Congress, celebrate his release from prison, in Adama, February 2018. Photograph: Tiksa Negeri/Reuters

 Today, Desalegn is a banker. But once he was a Qeerroo: a young, energetic and unmarried man from Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo, bound by what he calls a “responsibility to defend the people”.

Twelve years ago he helped organise mass protests against an election result he and many others believed the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) had rigged. This landed him in prison, along with thousands of others, on terrorism charges. Continue reading →

SBO Bitootessa 14,2018. Oduu, Dhumaatii Mooyaaleetti Mootummaan Wayyaanee geessiste fi gaaffii fi deebii Mis. GS-ABO fi Ajajaa WBO Zoonii Kibbaa Jaal Goollichaa Dheengee Waliin taasifamee fi SBO sagantaa Afaan Amaaraa.

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Oromo Voice Radio (OVR) broadcast, March 12, 2018

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