The Rebels (OLF) charging for election
(Sweden, The Blankspot) — The guerrilla group Oromofolk’s Liberation Front (OLF) was allowed to return to Ethiopia 2018 as part of the newly-appointed Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s reforms. Now its new chairman Dawud Ibsa Ayana believes in an upcoming election victory.
The receptionist at Scandic Hotell in Skärholmen looks stressed up from his papers. Around her, an entire wedding party dances past to beat-up claps and loud calls, while popping up for dinner and fixing up for tomorrow’s conference.
– A quiet place for an interview with one of our guests? It will probably be a little difficult, she replies.
After some deliberation, we are referred past the table tables into a room with a wallpaper with bookshelf motifs.
When Dawud Ibsa Ayana settles down, I apologize for the strut, but he is happy that we have room to sit. He has long wanted to tell.
For over 40 years, the Liberation Army’s liberation army was fought against the central government in Addis Ababa, and journalists then had to venture into the guerrilla-controlled areas to understand OLF’s positions on various issues, which meant that their struggle was either in practice misunderstood or remained completely unknown to outside world. Swedish journalist Martin Adler was one of the few who reported on the movement in the 2000s. Continue reading
Ka’umsa dubbii fi ragaaleen biroo dhimma kanaan wal qabatan maal akka tahan beekuu baannus ajjeechaa fi miidhaa biroo guyyaa kaleessaa (Gurraandhala 21, 2020) magaalaa Buraayyuutti raaw’atame kan lubbuun Komiishiner Sololmoon Taaddasee itti galaafatame ni balaaleffanna. Lubbuu badee fi miidhaa qaamaa dhaqqabeen kanneen miidhamaniif gadda nutti 
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