{"id":24761,"date":"2026-01-15T10:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/24761\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:32:09","slug":"ethiopias-somali-region-launches-key-water-projects-to-alleviate-shortages-dawan-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/24761\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia\u2019s Somali Region Launches Key Water Projects to Alleviate Shortages | Dawan Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"relative group\">Ethiopia, 15 January 2026 \u2014 Ethiopia\u2019s Somali Regional State has signed two agreements for the design and supervision of water infrastructure projects worth a combined 55 million birr ($352,871), regional officials said on Wednesday, as part of an effort to improve water security in the drought-affected territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"relative group\">The regional Water Bureau and the Somali Region Engineering Works Corporation finalized deals for a water supply system in Shinile and a new dam in Dharraaye. The bureau said the partnership is aimed at ensuring the quality of the projects and the efficient implementation of the region&#8217;s development goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"relative group\">The Shinile water project, which is estimated to cost 30 million birr ($192,475), is scheduled for completion within two months. The Dharraaye dam project, valued at 25 million birr ($160,396), is expected to be finished in three months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethiopia, 15 January 2026 \u2014 Ethiopia\u2019s Somali Regional State has signed two agreements for the design and supervision&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[63,1100,1104,854,1102,1107,1109,1106,1098,1096,1101,1103,1108,1105,1094,302,83,1099,1028,1095,321,262,65,1097,96,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-24761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ethiopia","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-african-business","10":"tag-african-culture","11":"tag-african-development","12":"tag-african-economy","13":"tag-african-education","14":"tag-african-entertainment","15":"tag-african-healthcare","16":"tag-african-media","17":"tag-african-news","18":"tag-african-politics","19":"tag-african-society","20":"tag-african-sports","21":"tag-african-technology","22":"tag-analysis","23":"tag-breaking-news","24":"tag-business","25":"tag-continental-news","26":"tag-current-affairs","27":"tag-dawan-africa","28":"tag-east-africa","29":"tag-economy","30":"tag-ethiopia","31":"tag-horn-of-africa","32":"tag-news","33":"tag-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}