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26 Law Democracy & Dev. 1 (2022)

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Public              health

emergency

declarations in the

Ethiopian federal

system:

understanding the

scope of state and

federal emergency

declarations             and

authorities


YIDNEKACHEW   MITIKU MEKONE

Lecturer, Law School, Addis Ababa
University, and Researcher, Institute of
Strategic Affairs

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6700-7448


ABSTRACT

Infectious agents posing a human
security threat have been    recorded
throughout history. Today, COVID-19
poses a serious human security threat in
the world, forcing governments to take
extraordinary measures. Extraordinary
measures, such as declarations of a state
of emergency, basically determine the
legal and operational resources available
to respond to an emergency. Hence, it has
implications for governments, the private


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