[3] Further proposed improvements were promised on 13 December 2006, when the Ethiopian government announced that it had secured a loan of US$98 million from the African Development Bank to pave the 227 kilometers of highway between Jimma and Mizan Teferi to the southwest.

[3] According to the SNNPR's Bureau of Finance and Economic Development, as of 2003[update] Mizan Teferi's amenities also include digital telephone access, postal service, and a bank and a hospital.

[citation needed] Records at the Nordic Africa Institute website provide details of the primary and secondary school in 1968, and a 70-bed hospital built in 1989.

Local farmers, believing they were being shortchanged due to inaccurate weights used by buyers, sought intervention from the then-regent of Ethiopia, Lij Teferi Mekonnen.

Lij Teferi, who later became Emperor Haile Selassie, responded by sending an official scale to the area to ensure fairness in trade.