Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has extended best wishes to all celebrating Fichee Chambalalla, the New Year festival of Sidama people.
Fichee-Chambalaalla marks the New Year in Ethiopia’s Sidama people’s distinctive calendar.
The celebration is imbued with festive and colorful cultural rituals of welcoming the New Year.
Fichee-Chambalaalla will be celebrated tomorrow, 20 April, in Sidama region.
Fichee-Chambalalla was inscribed in 2015 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Source: Ethiopian News Agency