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- 1 2 3 4 Caroline Knowles (22 August 2014), "Inside Addis Ababa's Koshe rubbish tip", Flip-Flop: A Journey Through Globalisation’s Backroads, The Guardian
- ↑ Nardos Yoseph (26 July 2016), Ethiopia: Farmer Protests Leave City Under Trash, All Africa
- 1 2 Agence France-Presse (12 March 2017), "Rubbish dump landslide kills at least 46 in Ethiopia", The Observer
- 1 2 Ethiopia rubbish landslide kills 48 in Addis Ababa, BBC, 12 March 2017
- ↑ Ethiopia rubbish dump landslide: Search for survivors, BBC, 13 March 2017
- ↑ "Ethiopia declares three day-national mourning after fatal landslide". Reuters. 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
- ↑ Briana Duggan, Ryan Prior and Joe Sterling. "Death toll rises in Ethiopian trash dump landslide". CNN. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
- ↑ Ben Messenger (2013), 50 MW Waste to Energy Plant Part of Sustainable Development Plans in Ethiopia
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- 1 2 Mahiteme 2005, p. 2.
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