WIRE โ€” Addis Ababa, May 18, 2026 (FMC) โ€” Ethiopia is advancing wide-ranging reforms aimed at building a unified, real-time and sovereign national data system designed to strengthen evidence-based governance, planning, and development management, officials said during the National Summit on Statistical Sovereignty in Addis Ababa. Speaking on the occasion, Minister of Planning and Development Fitsum Assefa

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