06
Aug
The federal government has prepared an additional budget of 550 billion birr. Two months ago, the federal government approved an annual budget of 970 billion birr and has now announced an additional budget of half a trillion birr. State Minister of Finance, Dr. Eyob Tekalign, stated that the federal government will present an additional budget of 551 billion birr to the House of Representatives. Out of this, 240 billion birr is allocated for social support, food security, employee salary increases, medicine subsidies, fuel subsidies, and other basic commodities. In total, Ethiopia’s federal government’s 2024/25 annual budget exceeds 1.5 trillion birr,…