Around Megenagna, Sitting on a massive drainage pipe laid along a rocky, unfinished stretch, young shoe-shine boys find a moment of respite amidst the mud and scattered buckets a small, human pause in the sprawling Addis Abeba Corridor Development Program waitng for their next customer. The infrastructure project, directed towards widening and modernising key arterial roads, has displaced communities and reshaped neighbourhoods, leaving workers, residents, and bystanders negotiating the uneasy interface between progress and daily life.

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