Understanding The Urban Environmental Challenges Of Addis Ababa

Ethiopia is a wonderful country with an origiginal history, religion and humanity. I suggest to everybody and hope to visit it again.

The physical-environmental geography of Sub-Saharan Africa relates to the distribution of human and economic activities in several ways. First, Sub-Saharan Africa is a peripheral that supplies raw materials, food, and cheap labor to the main industrial countries. The physical geography makes survival had for those not working in agriculture. It is the most productive way for people to make a living and feed their large families. In recent years, there has been major movement from rural-to-urban environments. Migration to major cities has caused extreme overcrowding and poor living conditions.

In the continent of Africa, there were numerous city states that were quite successful and powerful, particularly during the early centuries of the Common Era. Many African city-states increased the overall wealth, trade, and even territorial control in numerous regions, and as a result, different African societies experienced significant changes. One African city-state that was very powerful during the period from around 300 BCE to 700 CE, was Aksum, located in Northern Ethiopia. During the rise of Aksum, there was significant change in the horn of Ethiopia, as trade, agricultural production and military control increased. Through this, Aksum’s success increased, and as a result, Ethiopia and other nearby regions experienced significant change.

Air pollution have become a problem in Monrovia, the capital city of Liberia due to garbage burning. In every corner, most especially in the capital city suburb of Paynesville, Heaps of household along with industrial rubbish are piled up in Monrovia, and are not always being collected by the companies paid by the World Bank to collect this undesirable waste. The goal of the World Bank was stated clearly in 2009 to the sanitation companies, i.e. Collection of waste and disposal will be increased to 45% in Monrovia 's and it’s environ on a daily basis since December 2013, which is an increase of 15% points from the year 2009. However, it never works the way it was anticipated by the world bank.

Menelik, like Diaz strove to keep the peace in his country and did so with violence. Also in similarity with Diaz, Menelik paid little mind to democracy and had provincial rulers pay the price for strengthening Ethiopia’s central government. Menelik was Ethiopia’s central government. After Adowa he limited the rases’ power DEFINE, demanded they pledge loyalty, transforming them into more like governors who administered his laws, and he kept modern weapons away from them to neutralize the threat of

I entered this course knowing little about Ethiopia other than the stereotypes generated by society. Throughout my first week of class I learned that Ethiopia was the birthplace of coffee. However, since the first phase my knowledge and appreciation of Ethiopia has grown tremendously. Similar to many others in Western society, I saw Ethiopia as the sick African child suffering from famine and disease. Ethiopia was associated with weakness and dependence upon other countries’ support. Through research I learned that this was quite the opposite. Ethiopia is one of only two countries to abstain from true European colonialization. I learned that Ethiopia was once home to a strong empire. I learned that it was not until governmental destabilization

Kate Galbraith, A journalist, released an article covering the condition and to what extent africa's pollution is currently at. The article was released by The New York Times on April 2014. It starts off by telling us how an air quality scientist was testing the air. The machine that was created in Arizona was man to calculate the amount of pollution in the air.While testing the air in Ouagadougou the machine clogged and was sent back to the United States of America for repair. Galbraith continued on how things such as vehicle exhaust, dusty roads to even cooking with woods, also known as inside pollution, all contribute to the worrisome problem altogether. Health was now becoming a problem as dirty air can cause heart disease, stroke, and cancer and was third highest level of deaths per capita from indoor air pollution of any region of the world said Galbraith. Ms.Linden, until 2007 did research on Burkina Faso, said that one of the major outdoor sources of air pollution was Industrial Activities when the population in Ouagadougou swell by 50%. In this Article things such as the machine to calculate air pollution malfunctioned while on trial in an african country. Kate also included how industrial activities played a big part in outdoor pollution sources. Galbraith kept a very informative tone throughout the article as she explained the situations and how it was being measured. I believe that Galbraith was great in giving detail and going into depth in how the problem was

Let’s get started with a quick intro to the Ethiopian culture and some basic history of the country, before we look at my “peak” moments at Carroll. Ethiopia is a very old country founded on an even older form of Christianity, it is also the only country to not be colonized in

Close to Ethiopias northern border you can find the ruins of the ancient city of Aksum. They point out where the heart of ancient Ethiopia was located during the time that Aksum was the leading state between the Roman Empire and Persia. The magnitude of importance for this event in history should maintain significant perpetually.

Did you know that the first kings were of the Batembuzi Dynasty? Batembuzi means “pioneers.” The time period this city-state strived was not much recorded, but there is many things about the history of this city-state. People were

Kiberia, Africa’s largest slums where one million people live, is an “eyesore” in the eyes of Kenya’s president Mwai Kibaki. The place is in an extremely bad sanitary condition, with horrible smell, unpaved narrow streets, mud shacks, rivers are being filled with sewage, and mountains of trash. This is an ideal image of developing-countries poverty in many westerners. Sara Candiracci, one of the members of United Nations Human Settlements Program, even has to utter, “It is not acceptable that Kibera exists.” Thus, the government and the United Nations join hands together to change this area through an experimental slum-upgrading program. This program is said to benefit and reshape

Many people in Ethiopia, which shares a border with southern Arabia, also suffered from the problems of self-identification. The traditional theory of emergence of this state hypothesized that immigrants from the Arabian Peninsula settled in northern Ethiopia bringing a myriad of customs to the area, however, a new confounding principle negates this theory. A new theory challenges this emergence of a mixed African and Arab culture. This theory says that both sides of the Red Sea were a single, cultural unit. The rise of civilization in the highlands was actually a colonization of southern Arabian territory. This new emergence of people somehow worked because the cultural and economic exchange of these two cultures played a vital role in the legacy of

may even be reduced. As the population of an economy becomes wealthier, many prefer to live in the cleaner and quieter environments of the countryside. Thus, employees need to commute into cities for work, for which the necessary requirements, such as public transport or individual car ownership, are only given in more developed countries. Cities in developing countries, on the other hand, still continue to grow. Only the pace is two to five times faster than it was in the European countries during the period of industrialization (Kojima, 1996). Many developing countries in the world are currently experiencing an unprecedented rate of urbanization. It is also clear that, unlike the experience of currently developed countries, the process of urbanization presently taking place in developing countries is not so much due to rapid industrialization. Rather, it is the consequence of growing population pressure on land in the rural areas (Kassahun, 2000). Urbanization has largely taken place as a result of the “push” of rural inhabitants to urban areas (International Labour Organization 1998). Like many developing countries, Ethiopia remains among one of the least urbanized countries in the world. In Ethiopia, Informal settlement is socially, politically and economically growing problems, usually referred to residential areas where a group of housing units have been constructed on land to which the occupants have no legal claim or which they occupy illegally. Using the Ethiopian

Positive accomplishments of Ethiopia include participation as the only African League of Nations member in the United Nations and the capital, Addis Ababa, contained a substantial, international population. The repetitive presence of brutal governments, occupation, insurgency, and revolutions contributed to the integration of violent behaviors and norms into Ethiopian culture. Ethiopia remained an influential government as the only African country to never be colonized and made a successful transition from two millennia of autocracy to a modern state (Gerba, 2008). After World War II, Ethiopia’s closest friends included the United States, Israel, the Soviet Union, and Cuba (Makinda, 1992).

My main concern about waste disposal is toward poverty. In every society, for it to work effectively the waste disposal has to be handled properly. The lack of proper waste disposal can contribute for the underdevelopment of the community. For instance, in poorer community that does not have resources to dispose of the trash properly create a series of problems. For example, when there are a lot of trashes in a community, it will prevent investors to invest in a community, the housing market, schools and stores will decline, in consequence the houses will loose its value. This will create a ripple effect because people will start immigrating toward a better place where it is much cleaner. Families will try to move to a better place where their kids can have a better future. I ask myself who wants to live in a dirty environment? I hope nobody. That’s why I believe that the government should help the poorest communities about the ways to handle waste disposal, and better educate them about recycling.