Africa: Planners Debate Fate of Africa's Political Capital

Addis Abeba was host to the 2018 Urban Age conference, where urbanisation, its future and its effects were discussed among experts, last week.

With the hyper pace of urbanisation in the country, which is growing at 3.8pc annually, the fate of Addis Abeba was fiercely debated at a two-day summit organized by the London School of Economics and Germany's Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft at the Hilton Addis Hotel.

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