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Title: | The Somali in the New Political Order in Ethiopia |
Author: | Markakis, John |
Year: | 1994 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 59 |
Pages: | 71-79 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
Subjects: | Somali ethnicity Ethnic and Race Relations Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056249408704039 |
Abstract: | The collapse of the military regime which ruled Ethiopia between 1974 and 1991 signalled the defeat of forces that had dominated the country throughout this century, and made possible the self-assertion of subordinate and minority groups. Whether the end result of this process will be a fundamental and historic change in the political life of Ethiopia is as yet uncertain. In the meantime, many political organizations have emerged to represent long suppressed population groups, and they are claiming a share of power in a proposed decentralized State structure whose constituent units are ethnically defined. Among them are more than a dozen organizations claiming to represent the Somali people of Ethiopia, such as the Western Somalia Liberation Front (WSLF) and the Ogadeni National Liberation Front (ONLF). This paper pays attention to, amongst others, the Democratic and Peaceful Transitional Conference of Ethiopia (Addis Ababa, 1-5 July 1991), which had as its main task to approve the Charter for the provisional government of Ethiopia; the establishment of a Council of Representatives, in which the Somali were allotted four seats; the demarcation of ethnic regions; the 1992 local and regional elections, which were held to put the self-government scheme into operation; the structure of the regional administration; and future prospects. The data presented were gathered in Ethiopia in 1993. |