{"id":276322,"date":"2019-05-18T03:08:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T07:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiVWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvYmlsbC1lbXBvd2Vycy1yZWdpb25hbC1zdGF0ZXMtb3Zlci1taW5pbmfSAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:27:37","slug":"parliament-approved-a-mining-bill-that-gave-regional-states-more-power-over-the-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276322","title":{"rendered":"Parliament approved a mining bill that gave regional states more power over the sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 The Reporter reported that the House of People\u2019s Representatives approved a draft proclamation on mining regulation and transactions that strengthened the hand of regional states in the sector.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-468257\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Parliament approved a mining bill that gave regional states more power over the sector\" \/>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>As business and federalism archive, the bill file is a checkpoint for resource governance under Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government rather than a finished verdict on whether regional empowerment reduced conflict or simply moved it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/bill-empowers-regional-states-over-mining\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill empowers regional states over mining&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaThe House of People&#8217;s Representatives (HPR), on Thursday, approved a draft proclamation regulating the country&#8217;s mining sector and transactions empowering &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":468257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=1280%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19SO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754814,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276322\/revisions\/754814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}