By: Fayyis Oromia

I think now at this “hot season of election,” it is the right time for Medrek to make Birtukan Midhagsa its formal chairperson through nominating Andinet as the party in turn of taking the leadership from OPC of Merera Gudina. Of course, the representative of the chairperson will be Gizachew Shiferraw.

By: Fayyis Oromia

One article titled as "the dreadful mess of negation of negation in Oromo politics: when will it end?" was puplished on the website Gadaa.com. Then the website asked a legitimate question: "the Oromo national liberation movement in a self-imposed gridlock, how can Oromo movement unlock this gridlock?" At the same time the website showed us a very discriptive picture of a trafic jam as an illustration for the gridlock.

Fayyis Oromia

During the time of being occupied by Abyssinians for the last about 150 years, we Oromo people were "allowed to elect our leadres" under the monarchy of Mekonnen, T., under the military dictator of Mengistu H/M and now under the ethnocracy of Meles Z. We all know what sort of elections we had till now, no need of elaboration about them. Now we are few weeks before we will be "allowed to elect our next leaders".

By Tadesse Insermu

Jawar, a relatively new arrival to the cyber world politicking, has recently posted yet another interesting analysis under the title "Tigrean Nationalism: From Revolutionary Force to Weapon of Repression." This essay was posted on ethioforum.org/wp/ and oromoindex.com simultaneously some time mid last week.