A Facebook post claims to show a collage comprising pictures of senior federal officials from Amhara in Ethiopia wearing traditional Oromo symbols of power. The individuals are also purported to be the first to graduate with a specialist Oromo education called Gada. These claims are false: each photo has been digita.
Being from the Ethiopian side of the border, travelling and getting to know my people on the Kenyan side has brought me back down to earth regarding the way I have previously viewed the Borana Oromo.
For any negotiations to succeed, the international community should refrain from deciding on the future of Ethiopia and attempting to salvage an irredeemable genocidal regime.
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President Uhuru Kenyatta and Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia address the media shortly after inspecting ongoing developments at the new 32-berth Lamu Port in Lamu County. .
Relations between neighbours, households or of countries can be amusing to study. Countries quarrel over small issues then engage in diplomatic hugging when their common interests come under threat.
If it is households or individuals, the study discipline concerned is either sociology or anthropology. When a researcher studies behaviour in his or her society, it is sociology. When the people under study are foreign and in presumed need of foreign control and governance, the study becomes anthropology.