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In this episode, Ethiopia Insight Election Project’s Martha Kuwee Kumsa asks Kulle Kursha, an Ethiopian Insight reporter and analyst focused primarily on the Southern Nations and a law lecturer at Hawassa University, to reflect on issues he raised in the EIEP’s ‘A special statehood request in Ethiopia’s southwest‘.
Wolayta people participating at a rally demanding Wolayta statehood; 17 May 2019; social media
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Main photo: A rally in Wolayta-Sodo in support of Wolayta statehood; 17 May 2019; Wolayta Media House
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