The Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (,, OFDM ) is a political party in Ethiopia, created to further the interests of the Oromo people.

Tej (, pronounced ;, mes, Oromo: daadi ) is a mead or honey wine that is brewed and consumed in Ethiopia.

In December 2009, a 96-page report titled Human Rights in Ethiopia: Through the Eyes of the Oromo Diaspora, compiled by the Advocates for Human Rights, documented human rights violations against the Oromo in Ethiopia under three successive regimes: the Abyssinian Empire under Haile Selassie, the Marxist Derg and the current Ethiopian government of the Ethiopian People ’ s Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ), dominated by members of the Tigray People ’ s Liberation Front ( TPLF ) and which was accused to have arrested approximately 20, 000 suspected OLF members, to have driven most OLF leadership into exile, and to have effectively neutralized the OLF as a political force in Ethiopia.

Formed from the union of the TPLF and the Ethiopian Peoples Democratic Movement ( EPDM ) in early 1989, they were later joined by the OPDO ( Oromo of the TPLF and EPLF, and Oromo members of EPDM ) and the Ethiopian Democratic Officers ’ Revolutionary Movement ( a small body of Derg officers captured by TPLF, most notably at Shire in February 1989, which was later disbanded after the establishment of the Transitional Government of Ethiopia.

While further research is needed to precisely comprehend their origins, the Oromo are believed to have originally adhered to a pastoralist / nomadic and / or semi-agriculturalist lifestyle.

Historical maps of the ancient Aksum / Abyssinian Empire and Adal / Somali empires indicate that Oromo people are newcomers to most of modern-day central Ethiopia.

Both these Ethiopian Emperors are ethnically mixed, with Oromo parents and lineages.

The Oromo people are the largest ethnic grouping in Ethiopia, which has a total of 74 ethnically diverse language groups.

The Oromo are divided into two major branches that break down into an assortment of clan families.

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

The Oromo are divided into two major branches that break down into an assortment of clan families.

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

* 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.

* January 17 – Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia defeats an Oromo army at Ebenat ; 12, 000 Oromo are reportedly killed at a cost of 400 Amhara.

Dreadlocks are associated most closely with the Rastafari movement, but people from many ethnic groups in history before them have worn dreadlocks, including many ancient Semitic and Indo-Aryan peoples of the Near East and Asia Minor, Sadhus of Nepal, India and the Sufi Rafaees, the Māori people of New Zealand, the Maasai and the Oromo of Ethiopia, and the Sufi malangs and fakirs of Pakistan, and medieval Irish Warriors.

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

Forms of Oromo are spoken as a first language by more than 25 million Oromo and neighbouring peoples in Ethiopia and parts of northern Kenya.

Some linguists think of Oromo as a dialect continuum, since not all varieties are mutually intelligible.

Afan Oromo and Qubee are currently utilized by the Ethiopian government's state radios, TV stations and regional government newspaper.

Like most other Ethiopian languages, whether Semitic, Cushitic, or Omotic, Oromo has a set of ejective consonants, that is, voiceless stops or affricates that are accompanied by glottalization and an explosive burst of air.

The Afar are Eastern Cushite people, and have a similar language and culture to the Somali and Oromo.

Its nearest relatives are Afar and Oromo.

Both the Zone and the former province are named after a subgroup of the Oromo, who inhabit both.

It is a member of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, and its nearest relatives are the Afar and Oromo languages.

Cushitic peoples form a small ethnic minority of about 2 %, mostly represented by Oromo and Somali speakers.

With the creation of " Oromia " under the new system of ethnic regions, it has been possible to introduce Oromo as the medium of instruction in elementary schools throughout the region ( including areas where other ethnic groups live speaking their languages ) and as a language of administration within the region.

The ethnic groups included Somalis ( 96. 23 %), Oromo ( 2. 25 %), Amhara ( 0. 69 %), and Gurages ( 0. 14 %).

Derartu ( ዳራርቱ ቱሉ ), a member of the Oromo ethnic group, grew up tending cattle in the village of Bekoji in the highlands of Arsi Province.

The two largest ethnic groups reported were the Oromo ( 84. 15 %) and the Amhara ( 14. 3 %); all other ethnic groups made up 1. 55 % of the population.

The two largest ethnic groups reported in Arsi were the Oromo ( 82. 93 %), and the Amhara ( 15. 38 %); all other ethnic groups made up 1. 69 % of the population.

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.

The ethnic groups include the Berta ( 25. 41 %), Amhara ( 21. 69 %), Gumuz ( 20. 88 %), Oromo ( 13. 55 %), Shinasha ( 7. 73 %) and Agaw-Awi ( 4. 22 %).

The five largest ethnic groups in Benishangul-Gumuz were the Berta ( 27 %), Gumuz ( 23 %), Amhara ( 22 %), Oromo ( 13 %) and Shinasha ( 7 %).

The main ethnicities of the region are the Nuer ( 46. 65 %), the Anuak ( 21. 17 %), Amhara ( 8. 42 %), Kafficho ( 5 %), Oromo ( 4. 83 %), Kambaata ( 1. 44 %), Mezhenger ( 4 %), Shakacho ( 2. 27 %), Tigrean ( 1. 32 %) and other ethnic groups predominantly from southern Ethiopia 4. 9 %.

) The six largest ethnic groups of the region were the Nuer ( 39. 7 %), the Anuak ( 27. 45 %), Amhara ( 7. 74 %), Oromo ( 6. 49 %), Mezhenger ( 5. 76 %), and Kafficho ( 4. 18 %); all other ethnic groups made up 8. 68 % of the population.

The major ethnic groups included the Oromo ( 48 %), Amhara ( 27. 7 %), Somali ( 13. 9 %), Gurage ( 4. 5 %; 2. 3 % Sebat Bet, 0. 8 % Sodo and 1. 4 % Silt ' e ); the remaining 5. 9 % of the population consists of all other ethnic groups. 63. 2 % of the inhabitants are Muslim, 34. 5 % Orthodox Christian, 1. 5 % Protestant, 0. 7 % Catholic, and 0. 1 % followers of other religions.

The ethnic name has been changed to Oromo as the name Gala is considered offensive.

" The three largest ethnic groups reported in Bahir Dar Special Zone were the Amhara ( 96. 23 %), the Tigrayan ( 1. 11 %), and the Oromo ( 1. 1 %); all other ethnic groups made up 1. 56 % of the population.

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.

* 1782 – Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.

" In terms of descent, the group that became politically dominant in Shewa – and Subsequently in Ethiopia – was a mixture of Amhara and Oromo ; in terms of language, religion and cultural practices, it was Amhara.

* March 14 – Battle of Wuchale: Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.

* Oromo Liberation Front, a separatist group in Ethiopia

Islam is the religion of the overwhelming majority of the Somali, Afar, Argobba and Harari, and the largest group of the Oromo peoples of Ethiopia according to the 1994 national census.

Upon learning in 1994 that a local group of Amhara had formed a group called Galla-geday (" Oromo killers "), the local people voiced their objection to this group, and demanded its dissolution.

The Bale Mountains are the true ancestral home of the Oromo, the largest single ethnic group in the Horn of Africa.

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

Just prior to his accession in 1606, Susenyos I made his way to the lake Hayk area, where he expelled a group of Oromo who had infiltrated into the vicinity of Istifanos Monastery.

She is a member of the Oromo ethnic group from the high-altitude Arsi Zone of the Oromia Region.

Abba Seru Gwangul ( died 1778 ) was a chieftain of the Yejju Oromo, an ethnic group of Ethiopia.

OFDM Secretary General Bekele Jirata was arrested November 2008, along with at least 14 other ethnic Oromo for alleged ties to the outlawed Oromo Liberation Front and a previously unknown armed group, Kawerj, connections which were denied by the OFDM.