Ethiopia Insight published on 7 December 2023 a commentary titled "Hararis in Harar Are Being Erased and Dispossessed" by Abdullah Sherif, a leader of the Harari community in Toronto.
The author argues that Oromo extremism poses an existential threat to Hararis in Harar. Given their small numbers (well under one percent of Ethiopia's population), constant intimidation, and abandonment by the central government, Hararis in Harar are suffering in silence. Harari culture is being appropriated, its land and property stolen, and politics undermined.
