Addis Abeba and Oromia to Sort out Border
Tigrai Online
Jan. 07 2010
High-level delegates of the Addis Abeba City Administration, led by Mayor Kuma Demeksa and high-level delegates of the Oromia Regional State, led by President Aba Dula Gemeda, had a field visit Thursday, January 1, 2010, with the intention of addressing long-standing border conflicts between the two regions.
The mayor and the president visited Anfo Meda, which is between Kolfe Keranyo District of the Addis Abeba Administration and Burayu town of the Oromia Special Zone.
“Between Burayu and Addis Abeba, for example, there are many people who live on Oromia land with Addis Abeba identification cards,” said an official of the special zone.
During the caretaker administration of Mayor Brehane Deressa, the Burayu Administration had stopped 101 residential housing construction associations who were given land by the city from undertaking construction claiming that the plots given to them were part of Oromia where the Addis Abeba Administration had no jurisdiction.