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OLA accused the Ethiopian government of co-opting leadership rather than "beginning to address fundamental problems that underlie the country’s seemingly insurmountable security and political challenges". [23] On 1 December 2024, the Oromia Region Government and senior leaders of OLA have signed peace agreement in Addis Ababa.
Both the imperial and the Derg government relocated numerous Amharas into southern Ethiopia, including the present day Oromia region, in order to alleviate drought in the north of the country. [19] They also served in government administration, courts, church and even in school, where Oromo texts were eliminated and replaced by Amharic. [20]
The Oromo conflict or Oromia conflict is a protracted conflict between the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and the Ethiopian government. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The Oromo Liberation Front formed to fight the Ethiopian Empire to liberate the Oromo people and establish an independent state of Oromia .
In March 2021, the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) militants began offensive targeted to ethnic Amhara occupied zone in Oromia, forcing Amharas to leave Oromia. As of June 2022, about 200 Amharas killed in Amhara-majority parts of Oromia. [2] The war began amidst negotiation between OLA and the federal government took place in Tanzania. [1]
The 2022 North Shewa clashes were a series of clashes that broke out between ethnic Amhara Fano militiamen, the Oromo Liberation Army, and the Ethiopian National Defence Forces in the North Shewa zone in the Oromia region and the Oromia Zone in the Amhara region, which resulted in dozens of people killed and thousands displaced.
The OLA insurgency is an armed insurgency between the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), which split from the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) in 2018, [10] and the Ethiopian government, continuing in the context of the long-term Oromo conflict, typically dated to have started with the formation of the Oromo Liberation Front in 1973.
Since early 2019, the Ethiopian government under Abiy Ahmed administration begun large-scale house demolition that deemed "illegal property" in Addis Ababa and the Oromia Region in the area of Sebeta, Buraryu, Legetafo, Legedadi, Sululta, Ermojo, and Galan towns, with 12,000 houses destroyed by the government, which led to further unrest in the country.
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