Western Galla Confederation
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Western Oromia | |||||||||
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| Capital | Gore | ||||||||
| Historical era | Second Italo-Ethiopian War | ||||||||
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The Macha Oromo Confederation, also known as the Western Oromo Confederation or simply as Macha Oromo, was an Oromo separatist movement in Abyssinia during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. The movement sought to split off from Abyssinia and become a mandate of the United Kingdom, but gained no international recognition.
Captain Esme Nourse Erskine was the British Consul at Gore from 1928 to 1936.[1] During the Italian invasion 1935-1936, Erskine helped the Western Oromo Confederation chiefs with their application, which he probably drafted, to the League of Nations, in which Oromo chiefs asked “to be placed under a British mandate … until we achieve self government”. He forwarded the applications to the British Foreign Office.[2] The British government declined to forward these applications to the League of Nations.[3]