{"id":274091,"date":"2019-04-25T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=c9a775ff78db7654c5164c74688420f1"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:40:59","slug":"better-to-kill-us-residents-feared-evictions-from-ethiopias-satellite-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274091","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Better to kill us\u2019: residents feared evictions from Ethiopia\u2019s satellite towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, Thomson Reuters Foundation\u2019s Tom Gardner reported from Sululta and other satellite towns where residents said local officials were marking informal homes for demolition, with people muttering it would be better to kill them than erase their neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-276987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Addis-Ababa-Mayor-Takele-Uma-says-illegal-housing-in-the-city-is-out-of-control.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\u2018Better to kill us\u2019: residents feared evictions from Ethiopia\u2019s satellite towns\" \/>\n<p>Anxiety ran especially hot in Oromia fringes of Addis Ababa, where informal housing, job migration, and ethnic federal politics collide. Families who built without perfect paperwork faced bulldozers dressed up as urban order.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early years sold modernization and corridor aesthetics. For people on the peri-urban edge, reform looked like eviction notices and silence about compensation.<\/p>\n<p>As land-rights archive, the Sululta file still bites. Ethiopia\u2019s housing fights are not side stories. They are how the Ethiopian government decides who belongs in the capital\u2019s expanding map.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20190425094603-yoz46\/\">Thomson Reuters Foundation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-ethiopia-housing-evictions-feature\/better-to-kill-us-ethiopian-residents-fear-evictions-from-satellite-towns-idUSKCN1S113M\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Better to kill us&#8217;: Ethiopian residents fear evictions from satellite towns&nbsp;&nbsp;ReutersSULULTA, Ethiopia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) &#8211; Last month, local officials strolled through a neighborhood on the fringes of Sululta, several kilometers &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":276987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Addis-Ababa-Mayor-Takele-Uma-says-illegal-housing-in-the-city-is-out-of-control.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19iP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601441,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274091\/revisions\/601441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}