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Top news items of Ethiopia's major media outlets

Xinhua, June 17, 2016 Adjust font size:

The following are news highlights of Ethiopia's major media outlets on Friday.

-- Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom has expressed confidence in the support of Jamaica and Caribbean countries to Ethiopia's bid for a non-permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council.

While discussing the value imperative for Ethiopia's bid for the UN Security Council seat, the minister highlighted the country's track record of continued contributions to the maintenance of international peace and security. (Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation/EBC)

-- The Strategic Engagement signed with the European Commission demonstrates the success of Ethiopia's diplomatic ambitions in transforming the relations with key partners to a strategic level.

Ethiopia had set target to improve the level of partnership with the U.S, Europe, China and countries in the Horn to a strategic level at the end of the first Growth and Transformation Plan period that concluded last year. (Ethiopian News Agency/ENA)

-- The Information Network Security Agency (INSA) said it has foiled more than 165 major cyber attacks, which could cause damages to the country (Ethiopia), during the past nine months.

The agency presented its nine-month performance report to the House of People's Representatives Thursday, where it touched on works done in developing national capacity against cyber attacks and efforts made to prevent telecom fraud. (Fana Broadcasting Corporate/FBC)

-- The Ethiopian Ministry of Health reported cholera outbreak in Addis Ababa since last week.

About 15 people have so far been affected by the epidemic, it said in a statement posted on its facebook account.(Fana Broadcasting Corporate/FBC) Endit