Sidama People are the indigenous Cushitic or Kushitic language speaking Ethiopians. After EPRDF assumed power in 1991 immediately after the transition period, the Sidama nation has been granted its ...

Last week, the federal government took over security of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Regional State (SNNPRS) as Sidama activists protested in support of their right to statehood.

Sidama youths chat slogans as they gather for a meeting to declare their own region in Hawassa, Ethiopia July, 17, 2019. [File:Tiksa Negeri/Reuters] By the end of November 2019, Ethiopia may have one ...

People in Ethiopia's ethnic Sidama region voted on Wednesday in a referendum that could carve out a new federal state in a nation already struggling with community tensions. With heavy security on the ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia on Thursday granted its ethnic Sidama community a referendum in November on self-determination, with a view to creating the country's 10th autonomous region, Fana news ...

The Sidama referendum result is just the beginning of what is expected to be a long process to self-determination. Shutterstock The Sidama people of Ethiopia have, for the first time ever, been given ...