Potholes make driving, especially on back roads, difficult. The number of homeless people and panhandlers has increased greatly in Addis Ababa. The homeless sleep at bus stops, inside cardboard boxes or on sidewalks. Over fifty percent of the homeless are children. There is a widespread hunger in Addis Ababa and the countryside.
People talk about incidents of death from hunger.
Those who can afford a meal or two a day are the lucky ones. Some government employees skip lunch because they cannot afford it. In Addis Ababa, some of the poor scavenge in dumps. The cost of living is astronomically high and income is very low. Given all this, life is a living hell for the majority of the population.