Ethiopia adopted an ethnic federalism system in 1995 when the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) established the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Smith, 2002).
This system resulted in the creation of nine regions and two chartered cities, which were based on ethnic and linguistic criteria (Johnson, 2008).
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