“Although the leadership played a leading role during the struggle for national reform, the security problem that the region currently experiencing is primarily due to leadership failure,” he said as reported by Fana Broadcasting Corporation. Ethiopian regional states are organized on the basis of ethnicity and language except in the SNNPR where over 50 language speaking groups had been organized together under a single regional state with multicultural attributes. It is to be recalled that Sidama became the newest and 10th regional state in the country. Ten more zone level administrations in the SNNPR region are vying for statehood status, like Sidama. The quest for regional state status in the region has caused a series of violence claiming dozens of innocent lives.

Source: Ethiopian News July 14, 2020 00:00 UTC