Electric power lines lying around the Mexico roundabout threaten to trip over pedestrians right next to the state-owned enterprise in charge of administering it. Nearly half of the Ethiopian populace lacks access to the national electric grid despite the country producing north of 5,000MW of energy. The construction of distribution lines which requires millions of dollars has historically been funded by development partners like the World Bank. Even with Ethiopia exporting energy to neighbouring Kenya, Djibouti and Sudan, it still lacks an adequate distribution infrastructure domestically.

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