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EIEP Podcast: Legislative reform amid derailing transition

In this episode, Ethiopia Insight Election Project’s Tobias Hagmann asks Leul Estifanos, an Ethiopia Insight court reporter and a law graduate of Addis Ababa University, to reflect on issues he raised in the EIEP’s ‘Reforming Ethiopia’s draconian laws amid a derailing transition‘.

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