Ethiopia: Election Promises Castles in Air?

opinion

Today, Ethiopians will go to the polls for the fifth time since the downfall of the military regime. Some 36.8 million people are said to have been registered this year.

The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) likes to attribute this increment to the growth of democratic political awareness of Ethiopians. But gurus in the field of statistics do not rule out the natural demographic growth over the last five years, which is rather alarming.

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