By Kebour GhennaDecember 30,2018Ethiopia’s regional states are quickly becoming a loose confederation of autonomous states, less and less bound by a common law. The expansion of the regional state powers is beginning to encroach on the cohesion of the federal government. Regional officials are increasingly defying federal laws or block federal authorities who attempt to enforce a federal law that the regional state has determined to be unfair. Let’s debate how should power be divided among the federal and the regional state governments? Let’s ponder why the government existed: to serve people, or the artificial entities known as regional states?

Source: Ethiopian News December 30, 2018 12:45 UTC