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The highest-ranking court, the Amhara Supreme Court, is Amhara's "court of last resort". A seven-justice panel composes the court, which, by its own discretion, hears appeals from the courts of appeals, and retains original jurisdiction over limited matters. The chief judge is called the President of Amhara Supreme Court (Yeneneh Simegn).
The Amhara Region (Amharic: አማራ ክልል, romanized: Åmara Kilil), officially the Amhara National Regional State (Amharic: የአማራ ብሔራዊ ክልላዊ መንግሥት), [2] is a regional state in northern Ethiopia and the homeland of the Amhara, Awi, Xamir, Argobba, and Qemant people.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... and was formalised in 1995 when the current Constitution of Ethiopia came into force. ... Amhara Region: 32,456,300 154,709
[21]: 6 The TPLF was at the core of the EPRDF, although other political movements in the coalition included the Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement (which later became the Amhara National Democratic Movement, representing those from what is now known as the Amhara region of the country) and the Oromo People's Democratic Organisation (OPDO ...
The 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia established the regions based on ethno-linguistic territories. [1] [4] Previously, this level was called a province, and though many of the old province and new region names are the same, the entities are not identical and the words region and province are not interchangeable.
Ethiopia’s federal government says it lost control of some districts and towns to militia fighters in the country’s Amhara region during the latest conflict emerging in Africa’s second most ...
Professor Asmerom Legesse in Abbaa Gadaa cloth. Customary laws, in line with official state laws, are based on age-old community customs and norms in Ethiopia.They are noticeable in regional states and become influential in the life of people more than the formal legal system. [1]
The regions replaced the provinces in 1992 [1] [2] under the Transitional Government, the change which was formalised when the 1995 Constitution came into force. [1] The governors of the regions are officially styled as President of the Executive Committee or Chief Administrator of the Region.