PM Abiy Extends Best Wishes to Sidama People On Occasion of Fichee Chambalalla

Addis Ababa April 19/2023 (ENA)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.