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The OLA peace process is a set of negotiations, agreements and actions to end the insurgency of the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), which split from its wing, the Oromo Liberation Front (OLA) and rebels against the Ethiopian federal government since 2018.
Status: Ongoing. Start of peace talks between government of Ethiopia and the OLA on 25 April 2023. [1] [2]Conflict resumes after peace talks failed in May 2023. Peace agreement signed between OLA leaders and the Ethiopian government on 1 December 2024 and its members started moving into designated camps [3] [4] [5] [6]
The Oromo Liberation Army (OLA; Oromo: Waraana Bilisummaa Oromoo, WBO) is an armed opposition group active in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia.The OLA consist primarily of former armed members of the pre-peace deal Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) who refused to disarm out of skepticism of the peace deal, and former youth protestors who grew disillusioned with nonviolent resistance.
The OLA is an outlawed splinter group of a formerly banned opposition party that returned from exile in ... -A second round of peace talks between Ethiopia's government and a rebel group aimed at ...
The government of Ethiopia's largest region, Oromiya, on Saturday accused the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) rebel group of killing "many civilians" in attacks that followed the failure of peace ...
Status: Ongoing. Start of peace talks between government of Ethiopia and the OLA on 25 April 2023 [4] [5]; Conflict resumes after peace talks failed in May 2023. The OLA and the government signed a peace deal on 1 December 2024 and its members started moving into designated camps [6] [7] [8] [9]
The OLA was not satisfied with the peace negotiations, and split from the OLF. The OLA continued carrying out armed attacks. [ 33 ] Nagessa Dube, writing in Ethiopia Insight , described the split as "tactical", and stated that, as of August 2020, the OLA appeared to consist of two administratively separate groups in the south and west.
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.