{"id":60226,"date":"2022-04-03T16:28:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T20:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=60226"},"modified":"2022-04-03T16:28:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T20:28:44","slug":"amhara-government-says-it-is-working-on-legal-ownership-of-wolkait-setit-humera-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/60226","title":{"rendered":"Amhara government says \u201cit is working on legal ownership of Wolkait -Setit Humera Zone\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President of the Amhara regional state Dr. Yilkal Kefale said his <\/strong><strong>government is working<\/strong> <strong>on legal<\/strong><strong> ownership of Wolkait and Setit Humera Zone <\/strong><strong>as part of the <\/strong><strong>Amhara region.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recalling that the zone which was formerly known as Begemeder, was annexed by the invading Tigrayan forces 30 years ago, he said the legal process on legal return of the zone to Amhara region \u00a0is progressing well.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kefale expressed hope that the federal government would release the budget to Wolkait and Setit Humera zone shortly in an attempt to resolve the absence of water, electricity and other services.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He paid tribute to those people who sacrificed their lives while struggling for the peaceful return of the zone and identity of the people who were living there.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cland and identity question\u201d of natives in the zone\u00a0 goes back more than to 1991 after the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF) annexed the land to Tigray and forcibly removed the natives from their land in cruel and systematic ways.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government has not been sending a budget to the zone for no clear reasons since the Amhara special force, Amhara Public Force also known as Fano\u00a0 and militia have\u00a0 dislodged the TPLF forces from the zone since November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>More than 500,000 natives, who were ethnic Amhara, were forced to\u00a0 flee the zone and\u00a0 work far away, mainly the US and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Amhara regional state Dr. Yilkal Kefale said his government is working on legal ownership of Wolkait and Setit Humera Zone as part of the Amhara region.\u00a0 Recalling that the zone which was formerly known as Begemeder, was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/60226\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":60227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Yilkal.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60226"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60228,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60226\/revisions\/60228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}