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	Oromia Brief
		Oromia is approximately located between 3 degree and 15 degree N latitude and 33 degree and 40 degree longitude.
		Oromia was one of the free nations in the Horn of Africa until its colonization and occupation by Abyssinia at the end of the nineteenth century.
		Oromia is known for its unique native vegetation as well as for being, the centre of diversity for many different species.
	www.oromoamerican.org /oromia_brief.htm (9445 words)

	Oromia Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oromia (sometimes spelled Oromiya and spelled Oromiyaa in the Oromo language) is one of the nine ethnic divisions (kililoch) of Ethiopia.
		Among Oromo separatists, Oromia refers to a proposed independent Oromo nation, which would consist of the same territory that forms the present-day de jure regional state.
		Prior to the twenty-first century, the Regional capital of Oromia was Addis Ababa, also known as Finfinne (the original name in the Oromo language).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oromia (690 words)

	home-page OCFCU
		Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union was established in June 1999 in Ethiopia, the land of origin for Arabica Coffee.
		Oromia's coffee is heirloom, forest-grown, organic,bird-friendly and small farmer produced.
		Oromia's Mission: To make small producers economically self-sufficient and their households food secure through the strength of a privately owned and democratically controlled coffee producer's cooperative union.
	www.greendevelopment.nl /progreso/ocfcu (372 words)

	RS Asfaw - Tolossa (Ethiopia): Chapter 1.3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Oromia has contributed its share to the national debates on land tenure from its own perspectives derived from the aspiration and history of the Oromo people who were victimized during the last century.
		The delineation of competencies between the Federal Government and the Oromia State Council on land issues is something that has to be accepted in a federal arrangement which is acceptable to the Oromo people as a better form of government in light of the rights of all nationalities including the Oromo nation.
		The current leases prevailing in all parts of Oromia has to be curtailed in terms of the size of land to be leased, the duration of the lease, and category of persons who the land should be leased to.
	www.mekonginfo.org /mrc/html/tolossa/to1_3.htm (1499 words)

	Oromia page, dedicated to Oromos who didicated their life for the cause of Bilisumma
		Oromia is located in the Horn of Africa, currently under Imperial rule of Ethiopia, between 3
		Oromia stretches to the borders of Somalia on the east and south-east, to the north-eastern Kenya, to the Sudan in the west, and the Amhara and Tigre land in the north.
		Oromia enjoys a mild temperate climate because of the high altitude, mountain ranges, and vegetation.
	www.geocities.com /hasf4 (187 words)

	Oromia Zone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oromia is one of 10 Zones in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia.
		Oromia is named for the Oromo people, who settled along the edge of the Ethiopian highlands that form this Zone.
		Oromia is bordered on the southwest by Semien Shewa, on the northwest by Debub Wollo, and on the east by the Afar Region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oromia_Zone (350 words)

	Analysis: Ethiopia, Suppressing dissent: Human rights abuses and political repression in Ethiopia's Oromia Region, ...
		In Oromia, the largest and most populous state in Ethiopia, systematic political repression and pervasive human rights violations have denied citizens the freedom to associate and to freely form and express their political ideas.
		Oromia is governed by the Oromo People's Democratic Organization (OPDO), which was formed by the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in 1990 and integrated into the TPLF-controlled Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition that seized power in and continues to hold power today.
		The OPDO has dominated politics in Oromia since 1992, when the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), which had much older and deeper roots in Oromia, withdrew from the transitional political process after clashes with the EPRDF and the OPDO in the run-up to the country's first national elections in 1992.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6C93BX?OpenDocument (1725 words)

	Oromia - HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office
		Oromia Regional State is located in the center of Ethiopia and is the most populous regional state in the country.
		Based on the 1994 Population and Housing Census, the projected population of the region was estimated at 23,704,000 at the end of 2002 with a rural population of 87.7%.
		Consequently, efforts are being made to prevent the spread of HIV in Oromia and significant results have been achieved.
	www.etharc.org /oromia (385 words)

	Field Assessment Report: North Wello, South Wello and Oromia Zones of Amhara Region
		North Welo, South Welo and Oromia Zones of Amhara region had an unsatisfactory meher harvest in 1998, a complete failure of the belg and a poor meher harvest in 1999, leading to the depletion of household assets including recent heavy losses of livestock.
		This field assessment was conducted from 5-15 October 2000 in North Welo (Kobo and Meket weredas), South Welo (Wara Illu and Kalu weredas) and Oromia (Bati and Dawa Chaffa weredas) zones of Amhara region.
		Although in Dawa Chaffa Wereda of Oromia Zone some animal diseases were reported by farmers, which could be due to the swampy nature of Borkana Depression, no serious and unusual disease outbreaks or deaths were reported in the zones visited.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /eue_web/amhara2610.htm (2863 words)

	FDRE States-Basic Information, Oromia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The State of Oromia borders Afar, Amhara and the State of Benshangul/Gumuz in the north, Kenya in the south, The State of Somali in the east, the Republic of the Sudan and the state of Benishangul/gumuz in the west, the State of Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' and the state of Gambella in the south.
		Oromia is endowed with varied relief features which inturn accentuate varied and amiable climatic condition and other rich natural resource bases.
		Oromia is a remnant part of the high and extensive Afro-Arabian plateau formed from contunued uplift, rifting and subsequent volcanic piles.
	www.ethiopar.net /English/basinfo/infoormy.htm (1142 words)

	The Oromia State Governement
		In spite of the vast water resource potential, Oromia’s agriculture is almost entirely dependent on rain.
		According to the Economic Study of Oromia (1999), the region has about 1.7 million hectare of irrigable land, of which only 5% of the potential has been so far developed.
		However, the evaluation of existing irrigation schemes by Oromia Irrigation Development Authority (OIDA) in 1992 revealed that, out of 97 schemes assessed 41 were found to be inefficient.
	www.oromiagov.org /Irrigation_Dev.asp (632 words)

	Ethiopia : the Gilgel Gibe Resettlement Project
		The lines of responsibility and accountability between the project office, EEPCO the Jima zone administration and the Oromia Regional Government were not properly defined.
		Neither the Oromia Regional Government nor the Jima zone administration had in-house capacity (human or material resources) to assist the project in critical phases.
		The Oromia Regional Government and the Jima zonal administration were now the clients and EEPCO the executing agency.
	www.worldbank.org /afr/findings/english/find141.htm (2107 words)

	AWO OROMIA
		The right of the people of Oromia to self-determination is paramount and can not be compromised; however, FIO recognizes the possibility of a voluntary union of free and equal nations.
		FIO believes the rights of the people of Oromia to self-determination is realized when citizens of Oromia exercise their rights to establish an independent state.
		Ecologically and Agriculturally, Oromia is the richest region in the Horn of Africa.
	www.awofio.com (416 words)

	Oromo - The Forgotten People
		Today, the two veterans are optimistic that they will live to see "Oromia" liberated, and a new government in Addis Ababa.
		Oromia was once a mighty kingdom in what is now Ethiopia, stretching from Einfine (now Addis Ababa) in the north, to the Somali border arid Ogaden in the east, to Sudan and the Kaffa region, and into northern Kenya.
		Oromia Online is an independent Web site that does not endorse any single idea or represent any entity or group.
	www.oromiaonline.com /News/OromoTheForgottenPeople.htm (866 words)

	Editorial Vol. 2. No. 1, April 1997
		The points highlighted in the case of the two nations (Oromia and Shekecho) are similar in that they share, among other things, the Ethiopian colonial rule and all that ensues from it.
		In the context of the development of Oromia, Erena concludes that Oromia’s political independence is a necessary condition for modern economic growth.
		The point now is for the oppressed southern people not to be fooled into believing that the transfer of power from one hand to the other, while the personnel remaining the same, will not improve their fate.
	www.sidamaconcern.com /Editorials/ed21.html (420 words)

	Union urges help for Oromia - Minnesota Daily
		The Oromia Student Union is working on campus to bring an understanding of the political and educational issues concerning the current Ethiopian dictatorship of Meles Zenewi.
		Oromia Student Union President Midhasso Foge said the problems and concerns in Oromia, once a self-determined country, now a region of Ethiopia, are their concerns as well.
		The Oromia Student Union feels as if these problems are their own because of family and friends at home who are suffering under the regime, he said.
	www.mndaily.com /articles/2005/12/09/66547 (610 words)

	Suppressing Dissent: Human Rights Abuses and Political Repression in Ethiopia's Oromia Region: Political Competition in ...
		Oromia is the largest and most populous of Ethiopia’s nine regional states.
		In Oromia, the TPLF’s regional ally is the Oromo People’s Democratic Organization (OPDO), which was created in 1990, as the Derg began to collapse. The OPDO was created outside of Oromia without any grassroots political participation.
		Thus, the OLF and the OPDO are engaged in a tragic charade: The OLF pretends to be waging the kind of armed struggle that Meles Zenawi and the TPLF fought to bring down the Derg.
	hrw.org /reports/2005/ethiopia0505/4.htm (1410 words)

	Qeeyroo Ganamaa Tan Bilisummaa Oromia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The people of Oromia people through their effort, by reviving their language, cultures and through armed struggle have proven that they were the original inhabitants and the true owners of the land they inhabited at the present time.
		Brothers and sisters Oromia is not under the control of the people of Oromia yet, the ruling group will use all means including forces to dominate and control the people of Oromia under its rule, while it is strengthening its own group.
		The truth is, the people of Oromia are long known as the indigenous people of the horn of Africa who have been living in peace with their neighbours and the world community.
	www.qeeyroo.org (1737 words)

	Oromia Online News (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ethiopia faces 'green drought' - Ethiopia is suffering from a "green drought", a UN official visiting Ethiopia's West Hararghe Zone, in Eastern Oromia region, one of the worst-hit areas in the country, has said.
		In Shambo, western Oromia, five students, three males and two females were killed and twenty-one wounded.
		Your history must be a reminder of what had happened in the past as well as an informant of what could and must happen in the future.
	www.oromo.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Oromia_Online_News.htm (3395 words)

	SudanTribune article : HRW reports govt repression in Ethiopia’s Oromia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Oromia is a big problem," said Berhanu Nega, vice chairman of the opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy.
		Alleged participation in the rebel movement has been used to imprison thousands of Oromo, though there is little evidence the rebels are still capable of carrying out significant attacks in the country, it says.
		Regional authorities use local officials to monitor the speech and activities of people in Oromia and then use their power to deny them the chance to work, or exclude them from the community, the report says.
	www.sudantribune.com /article.php3?id_article=9491 (618 words)

	afrol News - Ethiopia limits rights in Oromia ahead of election
		In recent months, regional authorities in Oromia have imposed new local institutions that restrict the large rural population's most basic freedoms, according to the report.
		Beginning late last year, Oromia's regional government began imposing an entirely new set of quasi-governmental community "development" organisations called gott and garee, in thousands of rural communities.
		The chilling effect of these abuses is most pronounced in Oromia's countryside, where dozens of farmers interviewed by Human Rights Watch said that the efforts of the garee to monitor their opinions have caused them to avoid any discussion that might be seen as political.
	www.afrol.com /articles/16300 (1035 words)

	Oromia - HAPCO - About OHAPCO
		The Oromia Regional Government established the Oromia HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office (OHAPCO) to coordinate, mobilize, manage, guide and support the HIV/AIDS activities and regional responses of different organizations and groups in Oromia.
		OHAPCO is at the forefront of the fight against the epidemic in the region.
		The Oromia HAPCO office is located in Adama, Oromia.
	www.etharc.org /oromia/about/index.htm (321 words)

	Oromo Students' Uprising: A Powerful Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Similarly, Oromo students of Bahir Dar University requested Oromia regional state officials to discuss on the political condition in Oromia, on the atrocities being committed on Oromo students and people, on the economic development of Oromia with them, and demanded the release of students detained and all political prisoners in Oromia.
		The students are still insisting on the discussion but the Oromia regional state officials don't seem to respond,'' said the OLF on April 18.
		Similarly 170 workers of Oromia regional state are going to be sent out of Fin Finee to sub-districts to minimize opposition and to transfer of the seat of regional state to Adama.
	shaebia.org /wwwboard/contributedarticles/messages/55.html (921 words)

	Gadaa.com - Online Resource on Oromia and the Oromo People
		He said, “The number of people imprisoned in Oromia is increasing because they are the supporters and members of Oromo Liberation Front.
		What existed were independent kingdoms in Abyssinia, various confederacies in Oromia under the Gada system and the southern kingdoms of Walayita, Kaficho, Yem and various communal systems in the Nilotic and Omotic regions...
		It is not uncommon to see unexpected religious, ethnic, land conflicts in the Southern Ethiopia mainly in the states of Oromia and Southern Nations and Nationalities and Peoples (SNNP).
	www.gadaa.com (1504 words)

	ArticleTitle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Regarding what is happening in the Oromia region, the problems there, and the instability, the Prime Minister did not take it as a very serious problem.
		The problem is everywhere in Oromia and one should not forget what we hear in our country is from the media of the government, from the television.
		As a person from Oromia, the problems that have been raised are not only those mentioned in the report.
	www.waltainfo.com /CurrentIssues/Dec/current1.htm (2317 words)

	Meles Politicking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The decision to remove Oromia’s institutions from Finfinne, expelling hundreds of Oromo students from higher learning institutions, closure of high schools in many places in Oromia and killing a high school Oromo student all happened in a few months.
		Indeed, other students in Ethiopia seem to give deaf ear to this current unrest in Oromia, perhaps, believing that what is unfolding in part of their country is not an issue of the country.
		Oromia can not exclusively be a Waaqeffanna, a Christian or an Islamic state.
	www.voicefinfinne.org /English/Column/Unity_of_purpose.html (1520 words)

	CCP: Press Room
		The regional center in Oromia is the first to be developed as a result of the national center's mandate to strengthen capacity by expanding to all of Ethiopia 's 11 regions.
		In Oromia, the center will be fully integrated into the Oromia HAPCO office, where regional staff will receive orientation, training, and ongoing technical support from the national ARC.
		The Oromia ARC and Oromia HAPCO office will be connected to the national HAPCO and ARC network to more easily share information and give staff immediate access to the ARC website and databases.
	www.jhuccp.org /pressroom/2005/03-28.shtml (642 words)

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