In response to protests denouncing Abiy’s recent remarks, Dire Dawa’s municipal security forces reportedly carried out widespread arrests, house demolitions, and targeted attacks in Somali neighborhoods.Witnesses describe security raids as “revenge operations” aimed at silencing dissent and intimidating community members.…
The Congress for Somali Cause (CSC) has issued an official communiqué strongly condemning the recent irresponsible statement by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who falsely claimed that Dire Dawa city is constitutionally part of the Oromia Region. CSC considers this…
Unsafe Railway Operation and Alleged Corruption Scandal in Dire Dawa:Tragedy Strikes on Decommissioned Railway: A sense of tragedy and outrage has swept through eastern Ethiopia following reports of a fatal accident involving an unauthorized, outdated train operating on the decommissioned…
Flag Day in Ethiopia: A Celebration Without Identity Flag Day in Ethiopia is meant to symbolize unity — but who really identifies with the current Ethiopian flag?Under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the Prosperity Party (PP), national identity has become…
False narratives do not feed the people — they only serve those who profit from legalized corruption.Behind the carefully managed image of “reform” in Ethiopia’s Somali region lies a painful truth. While a few elites thrive under political protection, millions…
Ethiopia today stands at one of its most turbulent moments in modern history. The country faces overlapping political, social, and security crises that are deeply connected to how the Ethiopian state was originally formed. The foundations of the modern state…
For years, Somali Prosperity Party (PP) leaders — Mustafa Omer, Adam Farah, and Ahmed Shide — have repeated the slogan that Somali people are finally “at the center” of Ethiopia’s politics. They insist that, under Prosperity Party rule, Somali voices…
In the heart of Jigjiga, outside the Somali Regional President’s Office, a young man was beaten by the very people sworn to protect Ethiopia’s citizens—the federal army. His story is one of many, and it speaks to a deeper, darker…
The Sitti Zone of Ethiopia’s Somali Region is on the brink of a catastrophic humanitarian disaster. Communities are battling severe famine, a cholera outbreak, and state-mediated conflict—a deadly combination that has devastated livelihoods and displaced thousands. Internally displaced people (IDPs),…
A dangerous new political and economic maneuver is unfolding in Ethiopia. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the federal government is quietly advancing a plan that seeks to absorb parts of the Somali Region’s resource-rich territories into Oromia.…
