Ethiopia: Beset By Hardships, Yet Compassionate

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Despite the lack of good governance, low standard of living, poor infrastructure and myriad daily inconveniences that task their lives, Ethiopians still have it in them to care for the weakest among them, writes AMBESSAW ASSEGUED(assegued@anfilo.com).

A girl, not yet 10 or 12 years in age, comes up to the open door of a Qality-bound bus at Bishoftuterminal just as it is filling up with passengers. The girl's escort, a policewoman, walks a few steps behind her quarry waving 15 Br in notes.

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