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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.
This conflict is often viewed as an unfair conflict as the Somali Liyu police force, which was founded in 2009, [10] and was receiving aid from the ruling government of Ethiopia the TPLF against pastoralist Oromos inhabiting their homeland in the Somali Region. Somalis and Oromos clashed over Oromo lands.
The Gida Kiremu massacres were the deadliest incident in the Western Oromia conflict up to that point. [3] Between November 25 and 29, 2022, ethnic Amhara Fano militants attacked Oromo civilians in Gida Kiremu, killing at least 50 civilians on November 25. [7] In the attack, Fano shot at Oromia Police and civilians. [7]
The Oromia region has experienced prolong conflict and instabilities first initiated by OLF with successive Ethiopian government since 1973. After Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018, OLF has ratified as a recognized political party in Ethiopia in 2019, but its wing, OLA, rejected government's summon to deal in a peace talk in ...
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.
Oromo conflict Benishangul-Gumuz conflict The United Front of Ethiopian Federalist and Confederalist Forces ( UFEFCF ) was a coalition of six Ethiopian rebel groups, including the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) before 2022 and the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), created in November 2021 during the Tigray War .
Oromo Liberation Army During July 2024, the Fano militia started an offensive in the Amhara region of Ethiopia . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The offensive resulted in the capture of several key cities and strategic areas, including the city of Debark and the Ethiopian-Sudanese border town of Metemma .
The conflict began on 29 March, when alleged Fano militants attacked Oromo militants and policemen in the Minjar Shenkora district. [5] [6] The attackers then made their way through the towns of Korke and Awra Godana, which are disputed between North Shewa and East Shewa in Oromia. [4]