Neither top-down administrative restructuring nor identity-based autonomy demands are likely to bring peace, democracy, and development to a forgotten corner…
The only way forward for Ethiopia is allowing greater autonomy.
Promoting English would depoliticize the fraught language issue, bring Ethiopians together, and provide practical benefits.
Placing similar groups into multiple states could be the most promising way forward for the troubled Southern Nations region.
The prevailing federal view is that many more regional states in southern Ethiopia will stretch public resources, but it will…
Further failure to finally grant Wolayta Zone a referendum on regional statehood may trigger further protests.
Authorities’ response to southern statehood demands will determine whether Ethiopia cultivates true unity in diversity or unravels further.