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Top news items in Ethiopia's major media outlets

Xinhua, December 14, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- Ethiopian President Mulatu Teshome said Ethiopia would provide all the necessary support for Iranian business people investing in the country.

The president on Tuesday conferred with the departing Iranian Ambassador to Ethiopia Ali Bahreini at the National Palace. Mulatu stated that Ethiopia wanted to work with Iran and share its experience in the fields of science and technology, which he said would help in the country's economic transformation underway. (Ethiopian News Agency/ENA)

-- Ethiopian State Minister of Foreign Affairs Hirut Zemene and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov have discussed regional and global issues of common concern. (Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation/EBC)

-- Doctors at Menelik II hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have removed over 1 kg of cocaine from the belly of a Nigerian drug trafficker.

The substance was meant to be smuggled to various countries via the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. (Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation/EBC)

-- The Federal Urban Job Creation and Food Security Agency said it is selecting individuals that will benefit from the urban job creation and food security program to be implemented in 11 towns.

The agency said recruiting beneficiaries of the program has already been launched in Adama, Hawassa, Dire Dawa, Mekelle and Desie towns. (Fana Broadcasting Corporate/FBC) Endit