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EIEP Podcast: Volatility and voting in Ethiopia’s Somali region

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In this episode, Ethiopia Insight Election Project’s Juweria B. Ali asks Abdirahman Ahmed, an assistant professor of sociology at Jigjiga University in Jijiga, to reflect on issues he raised in the EIEP’s ‘New faces, old problems: reforms, clans, and parties in Ethiopia’s Somali region‘.

Watermen fetching water using donkey cart in Jigjiga, May 28, Abdirahman Ahmed

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Main photo: A voter registration center in Tuli, Fafan zone, Somali region; 23 April 2021; Abdirahman Ahmed

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