Some 500 waste pickers are believed to visit the dump every day, sifting through the waste of the better off for anything of value. About 150 people are thought to have been on the dump site when the landslide occurred Saturday night, a resident told AP. Mayor of Addis Ababa Diriba Kuma said 37 people had been rescued and taken for medical treatment. This is not the first landslide at the dump site, which stretches for more than 30 hectares and supports a hierarchy of scratchers who look for food, materials or resellable items in its muck. The country has been under a state of emergency since October, after dozens were killed during protests for more political freedoms.

Source: Ethiopian News March 12, 2017 20:26 UTC