For 30 years, Werknesh lived in a house built at the Koshe landfill and trash dump site in Addis Ababa. That ended Saturday night, when she returned from a funeral to find her home buried under a landslide of earth and garbage. The U.N. Development Program is working with local authorities and Addis Ababa University to capture methane produced by decomposing organic matter at Koshe. “The Addis Ababa administration that has been dumping trash has also been witnessing that people lived there,” he said. They should be held to account.”Symptom of greater troublesFor city administrators, helping victims of the landslide is not the only challenge.

Source: Ethiopian News March 15, 2017 16:30 UTC