In a spirited effort to change the capital's aesthetics, the campaign to remove tents on the side of the road launched by the city administration reaches the Mebrat Haile condominium. High-minded aspirations to fashion the city in a manner appealing to foreign tourists are making urbanites at the lower economic curve feel left out. A delicate balance between architecture and pragmatism needs to be struck with the national informal economy's size quivering at around 43pc and urban informal employment accounting for a fifth of the pie.

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