In May 2019 The Reporter reported that the House of People’s Representatives approved a draft proclamation on mining regulation and transactions that strengthened the hand of regional states in the sector.
Mining law sits at the center of federalism fights in Ethiopia because regions host the deposits while federal ministries still control many licenses, royalties, and investor contracts. A shift toward regional authority changes who can approve projects, collect fees, and police illegal mining.
Readers who track later conflicts over gold, industrial minerals, and community consent still need dated markers for how parliament rewrote the rules before war and political rupture remade the map.
As business and federalism archive, the bill file is a checkpoint for resource governance under Abiy Ahmed’s government rather than a finished verdict on whether regional empowerment reduced conflict or simply moved it.
Sources: The Reporter Ethiopia