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Top news items in major Ethiopian media outlets

Xinhua, July 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

The following are news highlights in Ethiopia's major media outlets on Monday.

-- Ethiopian First Lady Roman Tesfay has stressed the need to reduce women's vulnerability to cancer by way of empowering them.

Roman has made the call at the opening of the 10th Stop Cervical, Breast & Prostate Cancer in Africa Conference on Sunday at the African Union Conference Hall in Addis Ababa. (Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation/EBC)

-- The Co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, has expressed an interest in investing in the electronic payment and store value system in Ethiopia after seeing the increasing number of users in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, SABC, reported. (Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation/EBC)

-- Ethiopians and foreign nationals of Ethiopian origin living abroad have sent home 4 billion US dollars in the first ten months of Ethiopia's concluded fiscal year, said the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA).

Ethiopia's earnings from remittances in the reported period exceeded the revenue the country has generated from export trade, said Demeke Atnafu, Director General of the Diaspora Engagement Affairs at MoFA. (Fana Broadcasting Corporate/FBC) Endit