OLA insurgency

OLA insurgency
	Part of the Oromo conflict and Ethiopian civil conflict (2018–present)
	; Map of Ethiopia showing the Oromia Region
Date	6 August 2018 – present
Location	Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Status	Ongoing; Start of peace talks between government of Ethiopia and the OLA on 25 April 2023 ; Conflict resumes after peace talks failed in May 2023.
Belligerents
Ethiopia; Oromia;	OLA
Commanders and leaders
Abiy Ahmed; Birhanu Jula; Shimelis Abdisa;	Jaal Marroo;
	5,623 killed (per ACLED, Aug. 2018 – Dec. 2022)

The OLA insurgency is an armed conflict between the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), which split from the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) in 2018,^[6] and the Ethiopian government, continuing in the context of the long-term Oromo conflict, typically dated to have started with the formation of the Oromo Liberation Front in 1973.^[7]

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