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Top news items in Ethiopia's major media outlets

Xinhua, December 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- Ethiopian Ministry of Health and stakeholders from various ministries launched a 1.14-billion-U.S.-dollar nutrition program that runs from 2016 to 2020 on Thursday.

The Second National Nutrition Program (NNP II) aims at providing a framework for coordinated and integrated implementation of nutrition interventions by the government and nutrition stakeholders to end hunger by 2030. (Ethiopian News Agency/ENA)

-- Presidents of Sudan and Djibouti who graced the Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Day (NNPD) festival with their presence on Thursday congratulated the people of Ethiopia on marking the annual festival. (Ethiopian News Agency/ENA)

-- Ethiopia's year-on-year inflation rose to 7.0 percent in November from 5.6 percent the previous month, due to a rise in the price of food items, according to the Central Statistics Agency. (CSA)

The Agency said food inflation rose to 6.1 percent in November from 3.4 percent in October. Non-food inflation was 8.1 percent in November, compared to 8.2 percent the previous month, it said. (Fana Broadcasting Corporate/FBC)

-- Tanzania expects to begin importing electricity from Ethiopia in 2019 when the eastern African nations complete interconnection grids currently to form a regional power pool, according to Tanzania's power utility. (Fana Broadcasting Corporate/FBC) Endit