Addis Ababa City Administration Knocks Down 1,980 HousesJuly 18, 2017 - The Addis Ababa City Administration announced that it had cleared 102ha of land for redevelopment purposes in the last Ethiopian fiscal year, which just ended in June 2017. In this clearing program, the city administration knocked down 1,980 residential units from the 2,228 houses it planned to demolish in that Ethiopian fiscal year, calming 89pct success in its performance. Out of this prepared land, the city has already transferred 712ha of it to developers in a lease arrangement. The city administration, according to the tenth master plan, is targeted to redevelop 3,100ha of land in the next ten years. Not limited to the capital Addis Ababa, other major cities in Ethiopia have also been engaged in similar activates of city redevelopment.

Source: Ethiopian News July 18, 2017 11:48 UTC