{"id":447551,"date":"2023-05-24T08:49:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T12:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=447551"},"modified":"2023-05-24T08:59:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T12:59:38","slug":"state-backed-human-rights-watchdog-slams-mass-illegal-home-demolitions-near-ethiopias-capital-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/447551","title":{"rendered":"State backed Human rights watchdog slams mass \u201cillegal home demolitions\u201d near Ethiopia\u2019s capital: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The state backed Human Rights Watchdog, the Ethiopia Institution of Ombudsman (EIO) has slammed mass \u201cillegal home demolitions\u201d happening near Ethiopia\u2019s capital, Addis Ababa, the Voice of America (VoA) Amharic language service reported on Tuesday evening.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaking to VoA Amharic, Endale Haile, the Chief Ombudsman of the Ethiopian Institution of the Ombudsman (EIO), said the Institution is worried that citizens whose houses are being demolished in Shaggar city, a newly formed metropolitan city under Oromia region which surrounds Addis Ababa aren\u2019t being provided either compensation, alternative building spots or temporary shelters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAt a time when there around 20 million Internally Displaced Persons needing humanitarian aid, it\u2019s inappropriate to displace more people,\u201d VoA Amharic quoted Endale as saying.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Endale further said his Office has received around 100,000 complaints alone in relation to the ongoing house demolitions in Shaggar city.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chief Ombudsman also said even though it had held discussions with Shaggar city administration officials, the outcome of the discussions hasn\u2019t resulted in fruitful outcomes so far.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VoA Amharic also interviewed, Shaggar city mayor, Teshome Adugna who denied that house demolitions are sudden and stated that only illegally built houses are the target of the ongoing house demolitions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state backed Human Rights Watchdog, the Ethiopia Institution of Ombudsman (EIO) has slammed mass \u201cillegal home demolitions\u201d happening near Ethiopia\u2019s capital, Addis Ababa, the Voice of America (VoA) Amharic language service reported on Tuesday evening.\u00a0 Speaking to VoA Amharic, Endale Haile, the Chief Ombudsman of the Ethiopian Institution of the Ombudsman (EIO), said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":447554,"comment_status":"open","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":[5845],"class_list":["post-447551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/344816214_566621658788669_7495976950904832533_n.jpg?fit=526%2C940&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1Sqz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447551","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\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447553,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447551\/revisions\/447553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}