Ethiopian city braces for protests as activists promise to declare new region - Reuters WWW.REUTERS.COM Activists in Ethiopia were set to declare a new region for their Sidama ethnic group on Thursday in defiance of the central government, with...

Tomorrow is almost here. Let's who backs down.

So you came to a Somali website to tell us that there are no Somalis or no sense of Somali community. You seem to be conflating a sovereign state with a nation or ethnicity. There might not be one unified Somali sovereign state but there is a Somali nation bound together by a common religion, language, manner/rituals and territory. All this manifest itself into one culture. That is unless you are telling us Somalis have managed to evolve indepent of each other and yet somehow and rather miraculously developed one culture and common ethnicity. Your argument of clanism actually reinforces the idea of the Somali identity. Nothing is more Somali than qabyaalad. And that qabyaalad touches every Somali of every region and permeates through all institutions. Dividing Somalis into smaller groups will not solve the problem as those smaller groups will be faced with the same problems i.e politics around clans and sub-clans and competition for meager resources. A solution to a problem is mot to create problems.

I second that. Abdillahi, you seem like a young kid. Breathe and take time to study unless you are just trolling. And divulge a lit bit into the unification of Germany as well as Italy, two nation states that didn't exist before the 19th.

They will and had fougt each other in the past. In fact, most wars since fall of Barre were between sub-clans of the same clan.

And if the sub clans and sub-sub clans want their own states?

If true, Abiy get played.

Aamiin.

Escalation

Observer, What are they're saying?

Amhara Democratic Party responds to TPLF

I think EPDRF was cracking but it is now in the open.

This reminds of the end of the Soviet where Gorbachev and communist party were undermined by the new elected regional parliaments. The Baltic States were first to undermine him and he was eventually challenged openly by the president of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin. The Soviet ceased to exist that day! The infighting is a not good news. Sidama and Wolkait could be his Baltic States and Tigray is his Russian Federation followed by Afars and Somalis.