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Addis Abeba Integrated Master Plan

Analysis: Addis Abeba may never house its dispossessed, unsheltered inner-city dwellers
Slums may remain permanent fixture of Addis Abeba Samuel Bogale Addis Abeba, September 04/2017 – On left side in the middle of the long stretch from Arat Kilo Square (otherwise known as ‘Victory Square’) down to Mesqel Square, lays the age-old Menilik II Palace (The residence of the prime minister) …

Analysis: Addis Abeba: A city struggling under the weight of its failures triggers fresh minefield
Addis Abeba, July 10/2017 – Wednesday December 02/2015: it was not an ordinary day for five of six university students who were shuttling between the court room and their prison cells for nearly twenty months prior to that sunny morning. The university students were part of hundreds of Oromo …

Commentary: Protest-driven ‘economic revolution’: can it solve bread and butter questions?
Kassahun Kelifa, For Addis Standard Addis Abeba, March 20/2017 – Periodically, the movers-and-shakers of Ethiopian politics raise their voices about overhauling the economy and creating better employment opportunities for unemployed people in the country. Such calls often follow general public discontents expressed in several ways and forms. The …