{"id":28855,"date":"2026-03-16T09:43:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=28855"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:43:50","slug":"death-toll-from-ethiopia-landslides-rises-to-125","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/death-toll-from-ethiopia-landslides-rises-to-125\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll from Ethiopia landslides rises to 125"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The death toll from landslides in \u200bEthiopia last week has risen \u200cto 125, the South Ethiopia regional government said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Heavy rains \u200btriggered a series \u200bof landslides in different parts \u2060of the Gamo Zone.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As \u200bof last Thursday, authorities had confirmed \u200b70 deaths.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On Sunday the South Ethiopia regional government gave a \u200bhigher death toll of \u200b125.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>More than 11 000 people have been \u200cdisplaced, \u2060the regional government&#8217;s communications office said in a statement on its Facebook \u200baccount.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Prime Minister \u200bAbiy \u2060Ahmed visited the scene of the landslides \u200bon Saturday to \u200bcondole \u2060with local residents and pledged government support, according \u2060to \u200ba post on \u200bhis X account on Saturday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":28856,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-28855","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Death toll from landslides in \u200bEthiopia last week has risen \u200cto 125","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28857,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28855\/revisions\/28857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=28855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}