Occupying more than 37 hectares, Qoshe was not constructed to be a landfill By Etenesh Abera @EteneshAb Addis Abeba, October 16/2020 – The coming March, 2021 will mark the fifth year since the one and only landfill dump site in Addis Abeba Reppi
Compiled by Samuel Bogale Addis Abeba, September 15/2017 - On September 14, at around 11:00 am local time, one person was killed buried under a pile of garbage that a collapsed on him. According to the weekly Addis Fortune, the victim was “Kassahun Fekade, married
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Addis Abeba, March 17, 2017 – For the second time in less than six months, the Ethiopian ruling party EPRDF-dominated parliament has declared a three-day nationwide mourning. This time it is for the victims of a devastating collapse of a mountain of solid waste located 13 km southwest of the capital Addis Abeba on Saturday, March 9.
As late as Wednesday and Thursday more excavators were arriving
The story of the growing numbers of Ethiopians (115 as of yet) who died buried under a pile of Addis Abeba’s solid waste first broke nearly 12 hours after it struck. For such a story about Ethiopia’s “forsaken” [“we are the forsaken; why would anyone care, right?”], it was neither surprising nor unexpected.
