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The Ethiopian Unity Patriots Front (abbreviated EUPF) is a political party and militant rebel organization that waged an insurgency against the Ethiopian government from 1993 to 2012. Formed by ex-officials of the Derg regime, the EUPF was mostly active in Ethiopia's Gambela Region as well as eastern Sudan and South Sudan .
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 .
Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia? Oromo self-determination: Oromo militant party. Kefagn Patriotic Front? N/A: Formed by soldiers from the army of Mengistu Haile Mariam. Oromo Federalist Congress? Formed in 2012 from merger of OPC with OFDM. [6] Rainbow Ethiopia: Movement for Democracy and Social Justice? N/A
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 exacerbation of the conflict in 2016 is speculated to be caused from competition arisen from a prolonged drought. [15] From December 2016 at the border of the Oromia and Somali regions, the Oromia and Somali communities territorial tension boiled, notably near the town of Deka, leaving at least 30 people dead and more than 50,000 displaced.
Flag of the Oromo Liberation Front. Oromo nationalism is an ethnic nationalism advocating the self-interest of Oromo people in Ethiopia and Kenya.Many Oromo elites, intellectuals and political leaders struggled to create an independent Oromia state throughout 19th and 20th century, since the start of Abyssinian colonialism under Emperor Menelik II.
[4] [5] [40] Protests spread throughout 400 different locales across 17 zones of Oromia region [41] according to Amnesty International 800 Oromo protesters killed since started [3] The 2016 Oromo youth demonstrations started because Addis Ababa's new city master plan proposed including farmlands from the surrounding Oromia region to cope with ...
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.