This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page The government of Ethiopia has given significant attention to the road sector considering its massive impact on the socio-economic development of the country as road transport reaches the majority of the people the Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) is mainly responsible for its administrative role in the construction and maintenance of federal road networks of the country ERA has been working hard aimed at improving the country’s road network trade and thereby to develop the country’s economy located in Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples’ Regional State (SNNPRS) is an ‘old’ road project that was launched by the Ethiopian government (the then transitional government) back in 1992 G.C/1984 E.C; however I believe it is either ‘deliberately’ canceled or the authorities overlooked the benefits of it to the people it is supposed to connect The reason behind the decision not to implement the project is not yet clear people in this region have been asking the government to start construction of the road The road is expected to connect people from five different districts/woredas within two administrative zones in SNNPRS The economic benefit of connecting these woredas through the road network is unquestionable the completion of this project will enhance socio-economic development in the area It will make it easier for farmers of the region to transport their products to bigger markets the construction of this road will facilitate the administrative and social service coverage in the region by connecting the above-mentioned districts there is absolutely no justification to disregard this a very important road project I call upon the ERA to start the project as soon as possible and also I urge the government to investigate why such an important project is disregarded left unimplemented after it was officially launched This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence Please cite Ethiopia Observer prominently and link clearly to the original article if you republish please contact us at ethiopiaobserver@protonmail.com Check individual images for licensing details Andebo Abesha has recently completed his Ph.D degree at Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) He can be reached at andebo.waza@geo.tu-darmstadt.de or andebos2006@yahoo.com