When Feyisa Lilesa, a medal-winning Olympic runner from Ethiopia, visited Minnesota last weekend, most of the state didn’t notice. Lilesa became a local hero among Oromo people last month after ...
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP)-- About 500 Oromo immigrants living in central Minnesota are getting a leg up from a St. Cloud-based group that wants to help them adjust to the shock of a new landscape. The ...
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Who knows the Minnesota Oromo? Who knows their dark secret? Fifteen thousand Oromo live in Minnesota but they blend in almost invisibly, like a stealthy, anonymous population in the state. They are ...
Abdurahman Kadir has a difficult time watching the video of his cousin Misra Haji-Nabo, a woman in her 20s, lying bloodied and fatally wounded in a street outside Ethiopia’s capital city. The ...
About 200 members of Minnesota's Oromo community rallied at the State Capitol on Monday to protest treatment at the hands of the Ethiopian government. The protest was in response to a crackdown on ...
In search of recognition, a cultural group that feels like it’s been undercounted in Minnesota is looking to calculate its exact population in the state. The Oromo Cultural Institute of Minnesota ...
WORTHINGTON, Minn. - Natives of Oromia now living in southwest Minnesota, northwest Iowa and eastern South Dakota will gather in Worthington Saturday evening for an Oromo Community New Year ...
ST PAUL, Minnesota — More than 80 people have been killed in unrest in Ethiopia after a popular singer and activist was shot dead this week. Those numbers were released by the state-run Ethiopian ...
On Memorial Day, Oromo Minnesotans, early settlers of the land, congregated to reminisce and reflect on what has been an extraordinarily American experience. People lived in the territory today known ...
When 14-year-old Hamdi Abdujalil first arrived in Minnesota in November 2009, he surveyed the bleak snow-covered landscape near his south Minneapolis home. Reunited with his father, Mohammednur, who ...