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WHEELS & DEALS


WHEELS & DEALS

On the busy stretch of Sudan Street, commonly known as Goma Quteba, entrepreneurship has decided it does not need a shop lease or fancy signage, it has a boot. Quite literally. A young trader has turned the trunk of his car into a compact, mobile storefront, carefully lining up shoes with the precision of a museum curator, except here the “exhibits” are ready to walk off on someone’s feet within minutes. More than just a makeshift retail space, the setup reflects a sharp instinct for opportunity and a hustle-driven mindset that keeps the city’s informal economy moving. The vehicle doubles as transport, warehouse, and display shelf, multitasking at its most literal. One empty trunk, a stack of ambition, and a business model that proves you don’t always need a storefront to step into something bigger.

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DIG ZONE

A fleet of heavy-duty excavators, bulldozers, and dump trucks lines the muddy banks of a river near the German Square area. The concentrated presence of machinery signals the scale and speed driving the city's Corridor Development Program. The aggressive infrastructure push is reshaping the capital's urban form, but the intensity of earthworks at the river's edge also exposes a fragile tension. Rapid transformation and environmental protection sit side by side, each pulling against the other...


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BROKEN LIN

A heavily damaged utility pole lies across a pedestrian sidewalk in the Gofa Camp neighborhood, with loose wiring exposed and a crushed metal sheet fence nearby. The scene points to a disrupted urban landscape where basic infrastructure repair has lagged behind visible damage. The lingering wreckage underscores growing concerns over delayed responses to hazardous public property failures...


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VEST WAIT

Revenues Bureau personnel, identifiable in branded vests and body cameras, stand in a dense commuter queue at the Qera taxi terminal. Their roles are rooted in field enforcement and policing the informal economy, yet their off-duty reality looks no different from the citizens they regulate. The capital's strained public transport system turns routine commuting into a shared struggle, where municipal employees and the wider workforce wait side by side, exposed to the same delays, congestion, a...