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The Ethiopian New Year to be celebrated on September 11 looms on the horizon with much jubilation, festivities and traditional wow. The keremt season with its torrential rains, large amount of runoff and flooding along with landslides will gradually diminish with some more rain even in September when spring will arrive.
The Ethiopian New Year will arrive with yellow daisies known as Meskel Flower or Adaye Ababa that will line the country as a symbol of hope and prosperity. It will be an occasion when friends from rural and urban areas will meet as the river rises gradually diminish.
Next year, the peoples of Ethiopia will celebrate the New Year with mixed feelings of happiness and pessimism, as they are not so sure what the coming year awaits them, but the New Years festival will always provide them with the opportunity to ditch practices. undesirable personalities that endanger the health and well-being of individuals and families.
Normally, it is an occasion of peace and reconciliation and aspirations for a better life next year.
The fiscal year that has passed was compounded by a host of events, some of which will go down in the annals of this country for years to come. The prolonged struggle between the promoters of the status quo ante and the reformist government, the proliferation of ethnic conflicts here and there, the conspiracies against the construction of the GERD, the escalation of poisonous propaganda aimed at attempts to balkanize the country, the systematic war in social networks that culminated in the enormous loss of life, public and private properties outlined the socio-political activities in the country.
The global proliferation of the COVID-19 virus in the second half of the year that just ended did not spare Ethiopia, which affected the entire economy and the livelihoods of millions of people. The National Electoral Board was forced by the arrival of COVID-19 to transfer the national election with the support of HF. the partial closure that led to the closure of schools, universities and places of worship and the introduction of work from home in line with the state of emergency seriously changed the landscape of daily life in the country.
The year saw tremendous collaboration and rapid response accelerated through a public-private partnership that helped partially control the massive spread of the virus, creating a new culture of generosity and concern for those in need. The food sharing project launched by Prime Minister Abiy was particularly instrumental in extracting food and healthcare resources that are being distributed to those affected by the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
This collaboration was also evident in the country’s national greening campaign, in which more than 5 billion trees were planted.
The public unrest and fights that ravaged the country during the year due to various reasons related to unmet public needs became a breeding ground for vigilante groups that took the law into their hands by challenging public safety.
Despite all the zigzags and gaps the country had to go through, the Ethiopian peoples would celebrate the coming New Year with a huge track of success with the first stage of filling the GERD that vividly demonstrated tenacity, unity and courage. of the peoples and the government. Ethiopia had exhibited by making history in the eyes of the world and in front of those who wished for the sadness and ruin of this country. Ethiopians and citizens of Ethiopian origin here and in the Diaspora have not only contributed funds towards the completion of the dam, which heralds a bright future for this country, but they have advocated for the international media to thwart the conspiracy against GERD. .
Although COVID-19 has markedly affected the pace of the country’s economic development, the nation has recorded commendable achievements in the agricultural sector in which large tracts of land were cultivated with lowland wheat as a decisive step in the import and recovery substation of food costs. production.
Regional governments have launched a series of huge irrigation plans and community-centered development programs that were instrumental in meeting some of the public demands. New schools, hospitals and other public services were built and put into operation.
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In Addis Ababa, large projects such as Entoto Park and Sheger are already changing the physical landscape of the country, contributing to the improvement of the climate in the city and as potential centers of tourist attraction and for public recreation.
The rapprochement and joint consultations carried out during the year between the competing parties and the party in power showed a ray of hope for the expansion of the democratic political culture in the future.
The Ethiopian New Year’s Eve can be used as an occasion to rectify errors and shortcomings that were noted during the previous year for better production in the next. The author of this article wishes to take this opportunity to wish all Ethiopians and citizens of Ethiopian origin here and abroad, MELKAM AMET BAAL, Happy Ethiopian New Year!
