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Health Ministry Project Seeks to Ease Medical Graduate Unemployment

Jan 1 , 2022

The Ministry of Health has embarked on a project that is hoped to create job opportunities in regional and city administration health bureaus for 6,000 medical graduates. The project is scheduled to last three years and is financed by the Ministry of Finance and donors, including the Buffett Foundation. Nearly 3,000 graduates are expected to enrol in the project over the first year, with 350 million Br in funding. The Health Ministry will head the project for the first three-year phase, while regional and city administrations will be in charge of implementation following that. Medical graduates and professionals have long been protesting the lack of jobs in the field, mainly attributable to a lack of government budget.

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CLEAN SWEEP

A young shoe shiner goes door to door, offering his services around the Stadium area. It is common in the capital to see young rural migrants engaged in physical labour, scraping change to send home. CHR Michelsen Institute (CMI) estimates that one out of three rural households has at least one family member migrating to cities. Extreme poverty and lack of access to farmland force many to look for better prospects in the city. Upward income mobility has remained stagnant over the last five years...

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WET CARRIAGE

A carriage around the Ayat area delivers water, as homes rarely access tap water in the area. Ethiopia has nine major rivers, and twelve big lakes, often called the water tower of Africa. However, UNICEF estimates that up to 80pc of communicable diseases in Ethiopia are due to a lack of access to safe water and sanitation. The second most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest percentage of the population without access to potable water at 60pc, while the average daily consumptio...

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FRIENDLY SHOOT OUTS

Holiday activities at Jan Meda included penalty shoot outs for cash pay alongside other carnival games. The World Cup final in Qatar ended in penalty shoot outs this year, a global audience of 1.5 billion watched the spectacle. While the tournament's ending had stirred planetary awe, the death of 37 workers during the construction of the stadiums had given the games a sour taste early on. The tournament broke records of the biggest budget of more than 200 billion dollars and the most spectators...

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