Living by Ethiopia's sewage canal
BBC - July 2, 2008

Editor's Note: BBC has also reported that many of Addis Ababan Street Children live "in" (not by) sewage canals (see the pictures here). This is the accomplishment of the EPRDF/Woyane/Meles regime in Addis.

Sanitation in Ethiopia's capital city leaves a lot to be desired - and it is the poor who are most vulnerable as a result.

In a small shack made of iron sheets and pieces of clothing in the slums of Addis Ababa live the Alemu family - Abiy, Marasit Bishaw, and the couple's three-year-old son and 25-day-old baby daughter Yanit.

And just a few metres from their one-room home is a mass of sewage and garbage, mixed with the carcasses of dead chickens and cow and goat skulls.

The Alemus live near the gully where the Kabena river used to meander gracefully through the Ethiopian capital. Read More.