Inter-communal structures can prevent women and children from being captured during cattle raids and forced into servitude.

The Sidama are Ethiopia's fifth biggest ethnic group, making up 4% of the population and are mainly based in the state known as the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region (SNNPR).

For the past 20 months, Ethiopia's Amhara region has been torn apart by a bloody conflict between federal forces and a ...

At least 61 people have been killed in clashes between different ethnic groups in Ethiopia's Oromia region since Thursday, officials said. It is not clear what caused the latest violence between ...

Heavy fighting between ethnic groups in southern Ethiopia has killed at least 21 people and wounded 61, its state news agency said on Saturday, amid escalating violence that has sent hundreds ...