The 27-year-old athlete, who is an ethnic Oromo, made headlines last year after he crossed his arms over his head as he passed the finish line in the marathon race at the Rio 2016 Olympics. The ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Members of Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo, protested Saturday against the government and called for the release of jailed opposition figures as they gathered ...

Secretary of State John Kerry meeting nurses and workers during a visit to the Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on May 1. Members of Minnesota’s Oromo community plan to rally Friday ...

791 days after Feyisa Lilesa raised his arms in protest of the Ethiopian government while crossing the finish line for a silver medal in the 2016 Olympic marathon in Rio De Janeiro, he is home in ...

ADDIS ABABA, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group celebrated in Addis Ababa on Saturday at the start of an annual thanksgiving festival which was marred by ...

Ethiopian security forces arrested a prominent opposition politician when he returned to the country after speaking to the European Parliament in Brussels about the country's political crisis. Merera ...

More than 52 people were killed in a stampede in central Ethiopia after police fired warning shots at a holy festival Sunday, Communications Minister Getachew Reda said. “Troublemakers” at the Oromo ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Feyisa Lilesa threw up his arms in an “X” as he crossed the Olympic marathon finish line in two hours, nine minutes and 54 seconds and earned a silver medal for Ethiopia. It made up ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Members of Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo, protested Saturday against the government and called for the release of jailed opposition figures as they gathered ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Members of Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo, protested Saturday against the government and called for the release of jailed opposition figures as they gathered ...