Ethiopia: A Can-Do City

Addis Abeba is being bulldozed in every direction. A stranger who has just arrived might even feel that the City is trying to compensate for its century-old idleness, with multiple construction efforts being executed simultaneously. Mobility has become all the more difficult in a city that had few roads to begin with.

But sympathy for residents is the one thing that the ruling elite seem not to have. Their only focus is pushing up the growth figures by piling on more concrete, under the guise of infrastructure provision. There seems to be little concern about the massive destabilising impact the projects have on social stability. Their effort seems to have driven life in the capital city to the brink of chaos.

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