{"id":446598,"date":"2023-05-17T13:52:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=446598"},"modified":"2023-05-17T13:52:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:52:56","slug":"ethiopia-to-build-new-palace-amid-runway-cost-of-living-deepening-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/446598","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia to build new palace amid runway cost of living, deepening poverty\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President of Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region Shimelis Abdisa on Wednesday laid cornerstone for an Oromia region palace project in Ethiopia\u2019s capital Addis Ababa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The palace project which will lie on more than six hectares\u2019 area of land in Bole district of Addis Ababa is expected to be completed in two years\u2019 period, according to press statement from Oromia Region Communication Bureau (ORCB).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ORCB statement didn\u2019t disclose the amount of money that\u2019s slated to be spent to complete the palace project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has been contracted to build the Oromia region palace project.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once completed the palace is expected to be four storey tall and include Offices for the Oromia region President and Oromia region cabinet members.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Separately, the administration of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is engaged in construction of several luxurious palace projects in various parts of Ethiopia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most controversial of PM Abiy\u2019s palace projects, the Chaka (forest) project estimated to eventually cost between 500 billion Ethiopian birr (9 billion U.S. dollars) and (1 trillion Ethiopian birr) more than 18 billion U.S. dollars is already causing fears that it will displace hundreds of thousands Addis Ababa and surrounding residents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The construction of numerous luxurious place projects by the federal and regional governments is happening amidst runaway cost of living, deepening poverty, security crisis \u00a0 and chronic foreign currency shortage in the east African country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region Shimelis Abdisa on Wednesday laid cornerstone for an Oromia region palace project in Ethiopia\u2019s capital Addis Ababa. The palace project which will lie on more than six hectares\u2019 area of land in Bole district of Addis Ababa is expected to be completed in two years\u2019 period, according to press statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":446599,"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":[5845],"class_list":["post-446598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ami.jpg?fit=960%2C674&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1Sbc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446598","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\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446600,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446598\/revisions\/446600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}