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Oct 22, 2018 · HARAMBEE TODAY. 58 subscribers. Subscribed. 18. 2.3K views 5 years ago. Ethiopia's federal system is organized along ethnic lines, and whether that has been a good or bad thing for the country...
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Nov 26, 2023 · Published: November 26, 2023 3:40am EST. Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during his 2021 inauguration. Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images. Federalism is a system of government...
Jan 3, 2019 · The system of ethnic federalism was troubled with internal inconsistencies because ethnic groups do not live only in a discrete “homeland” territory but are also dispersed across the country...
Sep 4, 2009 · Ethiopia: Ethnic Federalism and Its Discontents. The Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), led by its chairman and prime minister, Meles Zenawi, has radically reformed Ethiopia’s political system. The regime transformed the hitherto centralised state into the Federal Democratic Republic and also redefined citizenship ...
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- 2. Ethiopian Federalism as a Centralized Federation
- 3. Ethiopian Federalism as a Confederation
- Dr. Solomon Nigussie — Discussant
- Dr. Mulugeta Mengist
- Dr. Yonatan Fessha
- Dr. Adem Kassie Abebe
Ethiopian federalism has been considered ethnic federalism both in domestic scholarly and policy discussions, as well as internationally in comparative federalism studies. I argue that Ethiopian federalism is so much more than “ethnic federalism” and even more than federalism itself. Ethiopian federalism has four faces, which are unitary, federal, ...
This federation of convenience may give the impression and façade that Ethiopia has been transformed from “a prison house of nationalities” into “a freedom house of nationalities”—that ethnic groups now have the autonomy and freedom to decide on their own affairs in the territories they inhabit, i.e., practice self-rule, and participate in the gove...
If Ethiopian federalism is a federation of convenience from the viewpoint of the ethnic groups and a centralized one from that of the regional states, it is a confederation from the perspective of the citizens. This is because the Ethiopian Constitution generated two imagined political communities as sites of citizenship. The first includes the Nat...
Thank you Berihun for your clear presentation and succinct framing of the most important issues. By agreeing with you on most points, I will focus on the most important issues which I think should be discussed. One issue is, there are people who argue that the Ethiopian federation guarantees the rights of cultural and religious groups and that th...
On your idea of having a serious federation more than having a federation of convenience you raise the issue of self-determination. I do not have a problem with self-determination in general. But the right to secession renders the whole federation a federation of convenience. I would like to raise the practical problems which arise from having a se...
In your paper you attributed the centralization of power to the design of the Constitution. I am not sure the centralization comes from the constitutional design. If you look at the division of power in the Constitution, it gives explicit power to the federal government and gives residual power to the states. This is an indication that the federati...
What are the parameters by which one can say a federation is centralized or not?
Nov 17, 2023 · Ethnic Federalism and Crises in Ethiopia. November 17, 2023. Taye Berhanu explores the role that Ethiopia’s system of ethnic federalism has played in the nation’s ongoing political challenges.
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Jul 28, 2021 · Ethiopia Faces Dire Consequences of Ethnic Federalism. Flickr. Photo by Kris Fricke licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Twenty-six years ago, Ethiopia defied warnings about the dangers of tribal politics and embraced wholeheartedly a political system based on ethnic federalism that now threatens to tear it apart.
