Al Hilal Paid Arsenal a Record Fee for Martinelli, and Amhara Started Digital Civil Registration

What Fana Media Corporation carried on 3 September.

Martinelli to Al Hilal

Saudi club Al Hilal signed Brazilian forward Gabriel Martinelli from Arsenal. Fana reported the fee at £60 million, citing the BBC, and described it as Arsenal's record player sale. Martinelli won the league title with Arsenal in the 2025/26 season.

Amhara introduces digital civil and family registration

Arega Kebede, head of the Amhara region, said civil and family registration will strengthen the administrative relationship between government and the public, at a programme introducing a modernised registration system.

Civil registration is the layer most other services sit on. Birth, marriage and death records are what let a person open a bank account, inherit property, claim a pension or prove a child's age, so where registration is thin people are locked out of formal systems by paperwork rather than by policy.

Wolaita's Gifata festival and tourism numbers

Wolaita Zone hosted more than 60,000 visitors in the fiscal year, reported around the Gifata festival, with tours running to Gibe 3 reservoir, Mount Damota, Bushsha Gara and Ajora Falls.

The Koisha dam

Visitors to the Koisha hydroelectric dam on the Omo River described it as an additional power source for the country. Fana carried the visit rather than new construction or commissioning figures.

What the government communication service said

The Government Communication Service said improving citizens' living conditions and ensuring sustainable prosperity remain the government's primary agenda, in the context of ongoing national reforms.

Sources: Fana Media Corporation, 3 September 2026 (dated 28 ጳጉሜን 2018 in the Ethiopian calendar).

> Editorial note: Fana's items are published in Amharic and were machine-translated for selection. Names, figures and quotations above should be checked against the Amharic original before republication. The £60 million fee is Fana's citation of the BBC, not independently confirmed here.