NPR's Jason Beaubien reports on a former political prisoner who has spent most of the past three decades working to improve the slums of Addis Ababa , the Ethiopian capital. Activist Jember ...

More than 33,700 homeless individuals have been reunited with their families during the 2024/2025 Ethiopian fiscal year, the Addis Ababa City Administration Bureau of Women, Children, and Social ...

Addis Ababa — A new research that assessed policies and practices of the right to housing in four urban areas, namely Addis Ababa, Adama, Bahir Dar and Awassa, found out that the majority of ...

Climate change is pushing millions of people into cities like Addis Ababa. ... A young girl collects garbage left on road in the Northern slum of Addis Ababa in 2007.

But Eden*, a mother of two who lives in a newly built housing complex on the Eastern outskirts of Addis Ababa, did not agree. “We live in these new houses, but there is not much change,” she said.

Most African cities separate fairly neatly into poor and rich areas “like a sunny-side-up egg”, with slums spreading out from the rim, says Mr Hebel. But Addis is “more of a scrambled egg”.

A general view shows a section of the Yeka Abado condominium on the outskirts of Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, October 19, 2016. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri By Tom Gardner ADDIS ABABA (Thomson Reuters ...

Studies in Addis Ababa and Nairobi have shown that people moved from slums into new housing experience a loss of community connection and in some cases cannot afford life outside the slum.

A World Bank study in 2010 found that 37 percent of Addis Ababa's residents were internal migrants, the vast majority of whom were drawn by the city's educational or employment opportunities.

The historic neighbourhood of Piassa, at the old heart of Addis Ababa, is being taken apart. Workmen are uprooting pipes, felling lampposts and chiselling at façades. One building is being ...