In May 2019 News Ghana reported that the United Nations and Ethiopian authorities launched an initiative to improve road safety after years of high crash deaths on highways and in cities.
The program was framed as joint work on enforcement, public education, and safer road design, at a time when vehicle numbers were rising faster than trauma care and traffic police capacity.
Road deaths are a quiet public-health emergency in the Horn, often treated as private tragedy rather than policy failure.
Kept as health and safety archive, the 2019 launch date helps track whether later campaigns cut fatalities or only produced ceremony.
Sources: News Ghana