Andualem Sisay asked why so many Ethiopians still migrate into overcrowded Addis Ababa


On 15 June 2019 New Business Ethiopia carried Andualem Sisay Gessesse’s policy note arguing that Addis Ababa was overcrowded because people kept flooding in from other regions while secondary cities failed to offer comparable jobs and services.

Andualem Sisay asked why so many Ethiopians still migrate into overcrowded Addis Ababa

He urged stronger regional development so migration pressure would ease, framing the capital’s congestion as a national planning problem rather than only as a housing shortage.

Kept as urban-policy archive, the New Business Ethiopia essay dates a mid-2019 argument about Addis-bound internal migration.

Sources: New Business Ethiopia