Ethiopia's Oromo Rebels in Tanzania for Peace Talks

Rebels from Ethiopia's Oromiya region said Monday they were in Tanzania for a second round of talks with the Ethiopian government to try to end decades of fighting. The negotiations come more than six months after a first round of discussions between the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) and Ethiopia's government ended without an agreement. The conflict in recent years has killed hundreds of people and displaced tens of thousands in Ethiopia's most populous region. The OLA is an outlawed splinter group of the Oromo Liberation Front, a formerly banned opposition party that returned from exile after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed — himself an Oromo — took office in 2018. Oromiya, which surrounds Addis Ababa, the capital, is home to Ethiopia's largest ethnic Oromo group and more than a third of the country's 110 million people.