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    The Legal and Practical Challenges in the Creation of New Regional States in Ethiopia: The Case of Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional States (SNNPRS)
    (Addis Ababa University, 2023-02) Abrham Derebe; Aberra Degefa (Associate Professor)
    This paper examines the legal and practical challenges of new regional state creation in Ethiopia, with a particular emphasis on the SNNPRS. The study thus tried to investigate some legal gaps relevant to new state creation and the practical challenges of new regional state creation, such as referendums, minorities inside new states, border demarcation, property distribution, and other concerns. By using qualitative methodology, this study analysed both primary and secondary data sources. Moreover, the study tried to draw a comparative analysis based on lessons learned from some countries regarding the challenges of new regional state creation and how to handle them. Accordingly, the overall findings of the study show that the FDRE Constitution, the revised SNNPRS Constitution, and other relevant subsidiary laws lack a clear legal framework for dealing with some challenges relating to new regional state creation, such as failure to consider the viability and minimum numerical population, sharing/distribution of common property, protection for minority rights within the newly created regional state, border demarcation and relating to the capital city the newly formed regions, the findings also show the legal and practical challenges Based on these findings, the paper concluded that the Ethiopian approach to the new regional state creation in the SNNPR failed to address the above-mentioned legal and practical challenges. Therefore, this paper proposes serious reconsideration of the Ethiopian approach to a new regional state created in a way that averts the existing challenges on the matter.