Buried in Ethiopian dump landslide: a young man and his dream - News Summed Up

Buried in Ethiopian dump landslide: a young man and his dream


Hundreds of people lived next to the 50-year-old Reppi dump, known as “Koshe” or “dirty” in the Amharic language. Biniam’s father Tsegaye said residents had often complained to city authorities about the dump, warning it fostered disease and put local families at risk. It was supposed to gradually close from 2015, but when garbage trucks began taking rubbish to a new site, protests erupted. It remained the city’s only landfill site, taking in daily deliveries of trash from the city’s 5 million residents. Emergency workers said it could take months to uncover all the victims.


Source: Ethiopian News March 19, 2017 16:30 UTC



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