The Borana Oromo of southern Ethiopia in the Horn of Africa also have a class system, where the Watta, an acculturated Bantu group, represent the poorest class.

The Borana Oromo, also called the Boran, are a pastoralist group living in southern Ethiopia ( Oromia ) and northern Kenya.

*** The Guji Oromo, who are inhabiting the southern part of Oromia, neighboring the Borana Guttuu and the Sidama People.

It is a sociolinguistic language, consisting of four varieties: Borana – Arsi – Guji Oromo, Eastern Oromo ( also called Qottu ), Orma, and West Central Oromo.

In Kenya, the Ethnologue also lists 322, 000 speakers of Borana and Orma, two languages closely related to Ethiopian Oromo.

Within Kenya there has been radio broadcasting in Oromo ( in the Borana dialect ) on the Voice of Kenya since at least the 1980s.

The previous indigenous Turkana name for Lake Turkana was Anam a Cheper. The area still sees few visitors, being a two-day drive from Nairobi. The lake is also an imaginary boundary of the Rendille and Borana and Oromo to the Turkana land. The area is primarily clay based and there is more alkaline in the sea water.

Other groups reported in Moyale include the Borana Oromo and the Garre Somali.

The Borana Oromo, also called the Boran, are a pastoralist ethnic group living in southern Ethiopia ( Oromia ) and northern Kenya.

: Borana is also an alternate Spanish name of the Boran sub-family of the larger Witotoan language family.

The Borana which include:

Mostly, these groups have lived in peace, but starting in 1994 and lasting for almost a year, there were ethnic killings of Gabra by Borana, following a dispute over clan ownership of cattle — which are the main source of income for both groups, in addition to trade in goods and foodstuffs.

The Borana speak Borana ( or afaani Boraana ), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages.

Moyale saw four days of ethnic clashes in July 2012 over a long-standing land dispute between Borana and Garri communities, exacerbated by drought conditions.

The other being the Borana.

The Turkana people of the north, the Bajuni, Akamba, Borana, Chuka, Gusii, Kikuyu, Luhya and Luo, the Maasai and the related Samburu and the Mijikenda (" nine tribes ") of the eastern coast are all found within the borders of Kenya.

The Borana Bible in Kenya was printed in 1995 using the Latin alphabet, but not using the same spelling rules as in Ethiopian Qubee.

Following repeated attacks from the Balana call them Borana or Galla and unfavourable weather conditions, and it was resolved to migrate south and east, to unsettled lands.

They dispersed and settled among the Kipsigis, the Nandi, the Samburu, the Marakwet, the Borana and even beyond.

In Ethiopia, the protected areas include Alledeghi Wildlife Reserve, Yabelo Wildlife Sanctuary, Borana Controlled Hunting Area and Chalbi Sanctuary.

Following the liberation of Ethiopia from Italy in 1942, the provinces of Borana and Welayta, created from conquered states of that name, were merged into Sidamo.

The town is inhabited by the Nilotic Samburu and Turkana, as well as the Cushitic-speaking Gabbra, Burji, Borana and Rendille.

Marsabit is the announced location for a conference between Borana and Gabra elders scheduled for 2-6 June 2009.

With 30 million members, they constitute the single largest ethnicity in Ethiopia and approximately 34. 49 % of the population according to the 2007 census .< ref name =" census2007p66 "> Their native language is Oromo ( also called Afaan Oromoo and Oromiffa ), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

* The Walloo Oromo, who are the northernmost group, and live predominantly in the Oromia Zone of the Amhara Region, as far north as Lake Ashenge, and are also found in the southern Raya Azebo woreda in the Tigray Region.

In some languages, assonance, the repetition of a vowel, is also exploited in forming artistic proverbs, such as the following extreme example from Oromo, of Ethiopia.

It is also known as jimma in the Oromo language.

Oromo, also known as Afaan Oromo, Oromiffa ( a ) ( and sometimes in other languages by variant spellings of these names ; Oromic, Afan Oromo, etc.

The Sapalo script was an indigenous Oromo script invented by Sheikh Bakri Sapalo ( also known by his birth name, Abubaker Usman Odaa ) in the years following Italian invasion of Ethiopia, and used underground afterwards.

Voice of America also broadcasts in Afan Oromo alongside its other horn of Africa programs.

Gemination is also significant in Oromo.

Oromo language singers like Kabaa Fidoo, Abbabaa Tamesgeen, Iyoob Yaadataa, Baacaa Bayyanaa, Magarsaa Baqqalaa, Dastaa Insarmuu, Bilisee Karrasaa and others have also served Evangelical Churches in southwestern Ethiopia.

He then ventured in the territory of the Oromo people, later becoming governor of the Egyptian Bahr-el-Ghazal province, where he struggled against Sebehr and the slave trade and also started the deployment of natural gum.

" He also is credited for albums by Getachew Hailemariam in the Oromo language, and Desaligne Mersah in the Gurage language.

The city was also instrumental in bringing Islam to the Oromo and other Ethiopian ethnic groups.

In July 2008, the UEDF joined the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement, the Somali Democratic Alliance Forces, and the Union of Tigrians for Democracy and Sovereignty ( also known as Arena ) to found the Ethiopian Democratic Unity Front or simply Medrek, a new coalition of opposition parties and activists.

However, when the OLF found that their efforts to field candidates in the rest of the Oromia region were frustrated by the Oromo Peoples ' Democratic Organization, which also had the support of the ruling Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, the OLF withdrew from the government in 1992.

Nekemte (" Naqamtee " in Afan Oromo language ; also called Lekemt ) is a market town and separate woreda in western Ethiopia.

" Pancakes " in the Horn of Africa region ( Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia ) are known as injera ( sometimes transliterated enjera ; Oromo: budenaa ; Somali: canjeero ).

The first armed conflict following the independence and unification of the former British and Italian colonies, known collectively as the Somali Republic, began in 1963 in an ethnic Oromo and Somali district, Elekere, then part of Bale province, instigated by the Oromo founder of the United Liberation Forces of Oromia, Waqo Gutu.

Particularly, the Oromo, a trans-national nation living in Ethiopia and Kenya, have a well-developed age-grade system known as the Gadaa System.

Thus he centered his interest on the Oromo, in his time known as the Galla, people of southern Ethiopia who then were largely traditional believers.

Since the late 1990s it has been officially known by the Oromo name, Bishoftu, which was its name until 1955.

Little is known about the Oromo people of the area and how they came to be there.

In the Gibe region, the Oromo came under the cultural influence of the kingdom of Kaffa, from whom they borrowed the concept of hereditary kingship ( called Moti in all of the kingdoms except Limmu-Enerea, where for historical reasons the king was known as the Supera ), and the practice of delimiting the boundaries or frontier of their states with a system of physical barriers.

In 1882, King Abba Jubir of Gumma convinced the kings of Ennerea, Gomma and Jimma to form a confederacy known as the " Muslim League ", to counter the threat from some of the Macha Oromo, who in turn formed their own alliance, the " League of the Four Oromo ".

However, Iyasu's widow, Welete Bersabe ( known as Wubit ) of the Oromo, strongly believed that it was her turn to take the leading role at the court of her son Iyoas as her mother-in-law had done during the previous reign.