OCIM estimates up to 40,000 Oromo people living in Minnesota, but the state demographer’s office puts that number closer to 8,500. Abdissa Loke is tired of being mistaken for Somali. Loke and ...

In search of recognition, a cultural group that feels like it’s been undercounted in Minnesota is looking to calculate its exact population in the state. The Oromo Cultural Institute of Minnesota ...

On Memorial Day, Oromo Minnesotans, early settlers of the land, congregated to reminisce and reflect on what has been an extraordinarily American experience. People lived in the territory today known ...

Abdurahman Kadir has a difficult time watching the video of his cousin Misra Haji-Nabo, a woman in her 20s, lying bloodied and fatally wounded in a street outside Ethiopia’s capital city. The ...

ST PAUL, Minnesota — More than 80 people have been killed in unrest in Ethiopia after a popular singer and activist was shot dead this week. Those numbers were released by the state-run Ethiopian ...

Feyisa Lilesa posing with a Minnesota resident at Friday's event. When Feyisa Lilesa, a medal-winning Olympic runner from Ethiopia, visited Minnesota last weekend, most of the state didn’t notice.

Feyisa Lilesa of Ethiopia stands on the podium during the medal ceremony after winning silver in the men's marathon in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. When it comes to staying ...

When 14-year-old Hamdi Abdujalil first arrived in Minnesota in November 2009, he surveyed the bleak snow-covered landscape near his south Minneapolis home. Reunited with his father, Mohammednur, who ...

'He is our icon. He is a father figure,' says a protest leader in St. Paul Two hundred protesters from Minnesota's Oromo community gathered at the State Capitol Tuesday to protest the killing of ...