{"id":279764,"date":"2019-06-19T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=926f7c8ba9073cd9e5180edd7f8b1549"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:17:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:17:01","slug":"timeslive-said-addis-ababa-planned-a-motorcycle-ban-to-curb-street-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279764","title":{"rendered":"TimesLIVE said Addis Ababa planned a motorcycle ban to curb street crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 19 June 2019 TimesLIVE reported that Addis Ababa planned to ban motorcycles in the city from July in a bid to curb muggings and robberies that local authorities linked to bike-mounted attackers.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-501854\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Addis-Ababa-forced-eviction.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"TimesLIVE said Addis Ababa planned a motorcycle ban to curb street crime\" \/>\n<p>City officials presented the movement ban on individually owned motorcycles as an unusual urban-security step after a crime spree in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as urban-policy archive, the TimesLIVE report dates the mid-2019 Addis Ababa motorcycle-ban plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/news\/africa\/2019-06-19-ethiopia-has-unusual-plan-to-cut-down-rampant-crime-in-addis-ababa\/\">TimesLIVE<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia has unusual plan to cut down rampant crime in Addis Ababa&nbsp;&nbsp;TimesLIVEEthiopia&#8217;s capital Addis Ababa plans to ban motorcycles in the city from July in a bid to curb a spree of muggings and robberies, local authorities said on &#8230;<\/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-279764","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-1aMk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279764","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=279764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755278,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279764\/revisions\/755278"}],"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=279764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}