Acronyms and Abbreviations
AESM All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement, better known by its native Amharic acronym መኢሶን (Me’ison)
ADP Amhara Democratic Party
ANDM Amhara National Democratic Movement
Art. Article (of laws)
BBI Building Bridges Initiative, a 2019 initiative proposing amendments to the Constitution of Kenya.
CUD Coalition for Unity and Democracy (a political party once in existence in Ethiopia, 2004-2007, established as a coalition of four existing political parties and which emerged as the main competitor to the then ruling part, EPRDF, in the May 15, 2005 Ethiopian General Elections).
Const. Constitution (the 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia)
ʼEċāte — እጭኣት Amharic acronym for “Ethiopian Oppressed People's Revolutionary Struggle,” a communist organization in Ethiopia in the 1970s
EPLF Eritrean People’s Liberation Movement
Eth. Const. Ethiopian Constitution (the 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia)
EDU Ethiopian Democratic Union
EPRDF Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front
EPRP Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party
ESM Ethiopian Student Movement
EU European Union
FDRE Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
FDA Foucauldian discourse analysis
GERD Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
ICCPR International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
MoFA Ministry of Federal Affairs
NNPs nation, nationality and people
NHRIs National Human Rights Institutions
OLA-Shene Oromo Liberation Army, a splinter group of OLF
ONLF Ogaden National Liberation Front
OFC Oromo Federalist Congress
OLF Oromo Liberation Front
OPDO Oromo People Democratic Organization
PDRE People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Pmbl. Preamble
PP Prosperity Party (Ethiopia)
SRS Somali Regional State
SEPDM Southern Ethiopia People’s Democratic Movement
SNNPRS Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State
HoF House of Federations
TPC The Transitional Period Charter of 1991 (Ethiopia)
TPLF Tigray People’s Liberation Front
TGE Transitional Government of Ethiopia
WPE Workers' Party of Ethiopia