Western Galla Confederation

{{Short description|1930s Oromo separatist movement in Ethiopian Empire}}

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| conventional_long_name = Western Oromia

| era = Second Italo-Ethiopian War

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| life_span = 1936

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| p1 = Ethiopian Empire

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| s1 = Italian East Africa

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| capital = Gore

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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.London Gazette 4 December 1928 Issue 33444 page 7975. 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.Morton, C. (2020). The Anthropological Lens: Rethinking EE Evans-Pritchard. Oxford University Press, USA. DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198812913.003.0006. p.149/150. Photographs of the applications, dated 25 May 1936, are in the National Archives, FO 371/20206. The British government declined to forward these applications to the League of Nations.National Archives, FO 371/20206 and Heli von Rosen (2013), Gustaf von Rosen: An Airborne Knight-errant (English translation Printed privately), p.81 Carl Gustaf von Rosen: An Airborne Knight-errant - Heli von Rosen - Google Books.