Sunday 9 January 2011

Federalism in Ethiopia helps maintain unity

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By Aaron Maasho
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - When Meles Zenawi's rebels closed in on Addis Ababa in the early months of 1991, their biggest threat did not come from Mengistu Haile Mariam's army but from a potential breakup of Ethiopia.
The group was about to end centuries of Amhara domination over the country's 70 ethnic groups, but some feared Ethiopia's long marginalised regions might seek to cut loose, as Eritrea eventually did later.
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