self-determination

Ethiopian nation-building is haunted by its troubled history

Discriminatory and exclusionary policies continue to disenfranchise ethnic groups in the state’s periphery.

4 years

Contextualizing an Ethiopian “terrorist” organization

Despite the government’s vilification of the TPLF to justify the war in Tigray, the party’s role in Ethiopia’s recent stability…

5 years

Time to make English a working language of Ethiopia’s federal government

Promoting English would depoliticize the fraught language issue, bring Ethiopians together, and provide practical benefits.

6 years

Splitting Southern Nations region into four can promote peace

Placing similar groups into multiple states could be the most promising way forward for the troubled Southern Nations region.

6 years

Respecting self-determination could prove good governance model for Ethiopia’s Southern Nations

The prevailing federal view is that many more regional states in southern Ethiopia will stretch public resources, but it will…

6 years

‘Exit’ imminent as Abiy neglects the Tigrayan ‘voice’

By undermining self-determination, and allying with Isaias, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is pushing Tigray towards independence.

6 years

More arrests in Sidama as authorities refuse to hand power to new region

The persistent violations of human rights in Sidama highlight the federal and regional governments' failure to uphold the rule of…

6 years