What the records say
- When
- 1989 – 2025
- Kind
- Armed conflict
- Deaths
- 4,888
- Coordinates
- 8.92° N, 38.62° E
- Incompatibility
- territory
- Type of conflict
- internationalized intrastate
- Types of conflict
- intrastate, internationalized intrastate
- Territory name
- Oromiya
- Region
- Africa
- Location
- Ethiopia
Placed at the middle of its 1,747 recorded clashes (UCDP GED).
Oromo conflict
Armed civil conflict in Ethiopia
The Oromo conflict or Oromia conflict is a decades-long armed conflict that began in 1973 between the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and the Ethiopian government. The Oromo Liberation Front formed to fight the Ethiopian Empire to liberate the Oromo people and establish an independent state of Oromia.
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The source
- UCDP Battle-Related DeathsUppsala Conflict Data ProgramCreative Commons Attribution 4.0
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