HAWASSA, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Awol Beyene got married on Sunday in a white tuxedo, with his voting card in one hand and his bride's hand in the other. On Wednesday, Awol's Sidama people will vote in a ...

The Sidama vote could open the floodgates for other communities wanting the same. Other ethnic communities that have already demanded their own states include the Welayta ethnic group, the second ...

Marie-Curie Fellow, EURAC Research and Associate Professor, Public Law and Jurisprudence, University of the Western Cape Mounting tensions in southern Ethiopia are creating high levels of nervousness ...

The current challenge comes from the Sidama ethnic group from a region commonly known the Southern Ethiopia Regional State. Ethnic Sidamas have been granted self administrative rights by controlling ...

JULY 18TH was supposed to be a day of celebration for the Sidama. Ethiopia’s fifth-biggest ethnic group was to vote on statehood in a referendum. Some members anticipated the moment by hoisting Sidama ...

Awol Beyene got married on Sunday in a white tuxedo, with his voting card in one hand and his bride's hand in the other. By Giulia Paravicini HAWASSA, Ethiopia, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Awol Beyene got ...

THEY ROSE at dawn, quietly assembling in long queues and clasping their voting cards tightly in their excitement. On November 20th more than 2m people from Ethiopia’s fifth-biggest ethnic group, the ...