{"id":2586,"date":"2026-08-28T07:39:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T07:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2026-08-28T07:39:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T07:39:05","slug":"ethiopias-somali-region-targets-170000-new-jobs-in-upcoming-budget-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/ethiopias-somali-region-targets-170000-new-jobs-in-upcoming-budget-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia&#8217;s Somali region targets 170,000 new jobs in upcoming budget year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">Addis Ababa (AMECO)-<strong> Authorities in Ethiopia&#8217;s Somali region plan to create 172,600 new job opportunities during the 2019 budget year, establishing employment generation as the state&#8217;s central policy priority.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">Speaking at a strategic consultative forum in Jigjiga, Hussein Geydi Ahmed, head of the regional Skills and Job Creation Bureau, outlined the sector&#8217;s upcoming plan aimed at tackling unemployment and boosting regional development.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">In addition to direct job creation, more than 30,000 residents will receive tailored short-term vocational and skills training designed to match current labour market demands, according to information released by the regional government communication office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa (AMECO)- Authorities in Ethiopia&#8217;s Somali region plan to create 172,600 new job opportunities during the 2019 budget year, establishing employment generation as the state&#8217;s central policy priority. Speaking at a strategic consultative forum in Jigjiga, Hussein Geydi Ahmed, head of the regional Skills and Job Creation Bureau, outlined the sector&#8217;s upcoming plan aimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[719,51],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameco.et\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}