{"id":278713,"date":"2019-06-08T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEFR_bQCZpjNkX1RD9B8_9_0qFggEKg4IACoGCAowpa8mMJL_BTCxtQY?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:19:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:19:05","slug":"allafrica-reported-a-commission-meant-to-untangle-ethiopias-mining-industry-muddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278713","title":{"rendered":"AllAfrica reported a commission meant to untangle Ethiopia\u2019s mining-industry muddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 AllAfrica carried reporting that Ethiopian authorities were setting up or empowering a commission to unravel problems in the mining industry, where licensing, illegal digging, and weak oversight had long mixed together.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-355987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"AllAfrica reported a commission meant to untangle Ethiopia\u2019s mining-industry muddle\" \/>\n<p>Mining was supposed to bring foreign exchange and local jobs, but unclear rules and insecurity around exploration sites often blocked that promise, so a cleanup commission was a governance story as much as a geology story.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as mining and governance archive, the AllAfrica item dates the mid-2019 push to straighten Ethiopia\u2019s mining administration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201906110622.html\">AllAfrica<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia: Commission to Unravel Mining Industry Muddle&nbsp;&nbsp;AllAfrica &#8211; Top Africa NewsAimed at preventing corruption practices in the mining sector, the study was initiated two months ago by the Corruption Prevention Department of the Federal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":355987,"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-278713","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\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1avn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278713","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=278713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755080,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278713\/revisions\/755080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}