Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federalism is a system of government where power is shared between a central authority and smaller regional governments. Many ...

Ethiopia represents a compelling case study in the implementation and consequences of ethnic federalism – a concept that sounds good in as much as “it empowers peoples and cultures” in a multi-ethnic ...

Writing in The Observer last week, Dr Busingye Kabumba of Makerere University’s Law School, attempted to make the case for ethnic federal system in Uganda. The argument is slippery, quite historical ...

Myanmar’s military regime has agreed to write federalism into the 2008 Constitution, but its amendments keep regional ‘Basic Laws’ subordinate to the centre and make boundary changes harder. Its peace ...

As the ONLF continued to assert its demands for self-determination for the Ogaden, its relations with the EPRDF soured. The ONLF’s Ogaadeeni clan perspective also alarmed members of other Somali clans ...

After the idea of federalism sneaked into Nepal, the reactions were arbitrary. The streets were burning with protests. The country was paralysed with fear and hope at the same time. Ethnic minorities ...

Criticised as system of dividing and ruling people according to their ethnic groups, Ethiopia’s federalism has just become a bone of contention. A recent international report warns if this system, and ...

In early November, Ethiopia’s federal government launched a military offensive in the country’s Tigray region. Why would leaders declare war on their own people? Could the violence potentially spread ...

These opinions are not new. In many of his interviews, Isaias has passionately reiterated that Ethiopia should engage in a centralized nation-building project and abandon ethnic federalism. However, ...

April 16, 2013 – United by common struggle against common oppression, the people of Southern Sudan’s three provinces of Bar-El -Gahzal, Equtoria and Upper Nile had been clamoring for federalism since ...

GONDAR, Ethiopia — Aba Yosief Desta preferred not to discuss the ethnicities of victims in the widening conflicts threatening Ethiopia’s unity. A wooden cross in hand, the Orthodox monk in yellow ...

Federalism is a system of government where power is shared between a central authority and smaller regional governments. Many countries adopt federalism to manage ethnic diversity within their borders ...