{"id":276712,"date":"2019-05-22T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=eb291d4d9c628e5bdf5d1a1518ff8b9d"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:47:07","slug":"the-united-nations-and-ethiopia-launched-a-road-safety-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276712","title":{"rendered":"The United Nations and Ethiopia launched a road-safety initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-355987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The United Nations and Ethiopia launched a road-safety initiative\" \/>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Road deaths are a quiet public-health emergency in the Horn, often treated as private tragedy rather than policy failure.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as health and safety archive, the 2019 launch date helps track whether later campaigns cut fatalities or only produced ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsghana.com.gh\/un-led-initiative-to-enhance-road-safety-in-ethiopia\/\">News Ghana<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN-led initiative to enhance road safety in Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;News GhanaThe United Nations and the Ethiopian government have launched an initiative to enhance road safety in Ethiopia. Under the new initiative, which was launched &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":355987,"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-276712","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\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19Z6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276712","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=276712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754858,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276712\/revisions\/754858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}