Qeerroo


The Qeerroo is a movement of students and educated young Oromos in Ethiopia. They staged nation wide protest rallies in July 2020 following the assassination of a star Oromo singer,
Haacaalu Hundeesa. In traditional Oromo culture the term means "bachelor" but within the political movement symbolizes the Oromo struggle for increased political freedom, greater ethnic representation in government, "... an entire generation of newly assertive Ethiopian youth," and the reclamation of Ethiopia under Qeerroo rule.
The Qeerroo, also known as the Qubee generation, "first emerged in 1991 with the participation of the Oromo Liberation Front in the transitional government of Ethiopia." Qeerroos also played a key role in the Oromo Protests 2016. The BBC has described Qeerroo as being another name for Ethiopia's National Youth Movement for Freedom and Democracy, which calls itself Qeerroo Bilisummaa Oromoo. Jawar Mohammed, a Qeerroo, played a key role in founding the NYMFD.
was named to remember Qeerroos struggle
The Qeerroo movement inspired many marginalized ethnic to create their own youth movement. Some of youth movements are Ejjetto, Barbaarta, Fano and Zarma. Both the Somali youth Barbaarta demand to end Abdi Illey's Presidency and the Sidama youth Ejjatto demand to statehood of Sidama succeeded.