{"id":276550,"date":"2019-05-20T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=9ca7f97d1a44574cce327e6034951c2b"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:28:07","slug":"africa-hall-at-uneca-in-addis-ababa-was-lined-up-for-a-56-9-million-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276550","title":{"rendered":"Africa Hall at UNECA in Addis Ababa was lined up for a $56.9 million renovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Construction Review reported that Africa Hall, the historic meeting place of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, was set for renovations valued at about $56.9 million.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-353196\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tourism-Ethiopia-702103-1714-54-07.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Africa Hall at UNECA in Addis Ababa was lined up for a $56.9 million renovation\" \/>\n<p>Africa Hall is where African independence-era diplomacy left a physical mark in Ethiopia\u2019s capital. Renovation talk mixes heritage conservation with the practical need to keep a working UN conference site safe and modern.<\/p>\n<p>Large UN building projects in Addis Ababa also sit inside local debates about land, contractors, and who benefits when international campuses expand.<\/p>\n<p>As heritage and infrastructure archive, the $56.9 million figure dates a major planned upgrade to a landmark of pan-African diplomacy on Ethiopian soil.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/constructionreviewonline.com\/2019\/05\/africa-hall-in-ethiopia-to-undergo-us-56-9m-renovation\/\">Construction Review<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Hall in Ethiopia to undergo US $56.9m renovation&nbsp;&nbsp;Construction ReviewThe Africa Hall, the permanent headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) situated in Ethiopia is set to undergo renovations &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":353196,"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-276550","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\/2021\/03\/Tourism-Ethiopia-702103-1714-54-07.jpg?fit=788%2C538&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19Wu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276550","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=276550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754828,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276550\/revisions\/754828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}