{"id":353967,"date":"2021-03-25T18:13:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=353967"},"modified":"2021-03-25T18:13:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T22:13:58","slug":"nebe-announced-commencement-of-voters-registration-for-the-countrys-sixth-general-elections-scheduled-to-take-place-next-june-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/353967","title":{"rendered":"NEBE announced commencement of voters\u2019 registration for the country&#8217;s sixth general elections scheduled to take place next June (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE)Thursday announced the commencement of voters\u2019 registration for the country&#8217;s sixth general elections scheduled to take place on June 5, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the board had re-scheduled the start date for voters\u2019 registration citing challenges like delays in opening constituency offices, lack of transportation for the distribution of election materials, and time-consuming&#8221; process of recruiting independent constituency officers, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Soliyana Shimeles, NEBE\u2019s Communication Head told EBC that the board has already dispatched voters\u2019 registration materials across major cities in the country but she was not sure if the registration was started.<\/p>\n<p>Well over 50,000 polling stations will be readily available in Ethiopia\u2019s next general election. Video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"462\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0bz7WOgMBPs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE)Thursday announced the commencement of voters\u2019 registration for the country&#8217;s sixth general elections scheduled to take place on June 5, 2021. Last month, the board had re-scheduled the start date for voters\u2019 registration citing challenges like delays in opening constituency offices, lack of transportation for the distribution of election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":353968,"comment_status":"open","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-353967","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\/03\/Soliyan-Shimeles.png?fit=663%2C329&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1u59","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353967","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353991,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353967\/revisions\/353991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}