{"id":278936,"date":"2019-06-15T05:28:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T09:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiXGh0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vd2h5LWV2ZXJ5Ym9keS1taWdyYXRlcy10by1hZGRpcy1hYmFiYS1wb2xpY3ktcmVjb21tZW5kYXRpb24v0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:16:00","slug":"andualem-sisay-asked-why-so-many-ethiopians-still-migrate-into-overcrowded-addis-ababa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278936","title":{"rendered":"Andualem Sisay asked why so many Ethiopians still migrate into overcrowded Addis Ababa"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 15 June 2019 New Business Ethiopia carried Andualem Sisay Gessesse\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\"Andualem\n

He urged stronger regional development so migration pressure would ease, framing the capital\u2019s congestion as a national planning problem rather than only as a housing shortage.<\/p>\n

Kept as urban-policy archive, the New Business Ethiopia essay dates a mid-2019 argument about Addis-bound internal migration.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong> New Business Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why everybody migrates to Addis Ababa? Policy recommendation  New Business EthiopiaBy Andualem Sisay Gessesse \u2013 In my view one of the main reasons why Addis Ababa is overcrowded at the moment by the people flooding into the city from all …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":501854,"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-278936","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\/2025\/04\/Addis-Ababa-forced-eviction.jpg?fit=966%2C607&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1ayY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278936","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=278936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755231,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278936\/revisions\/755231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}