r/Amhara

Hey everyone,

I’ve been spending a lot of time looking at satellite imagery and maps of expanding cities across Ethiopia lately, and the stark difference in urban planning between regions is pretty wild.

If you look at major growing cities in the Amhara region—especially places like Bahir Dar and the massive expansion zones in Debre Birhan—the development looks incredibly well-planned. You can clearly see a grid-like structure layout, pre-demarcated road networks, organized neighborhoods, and zoned spaces ready for infrastructure before the houses even go up. It seems like the local municipalities are actively steering the growth.

On the flip side, looking at rapidly expanding hubs in the Oromia region like Shashemene or Jimma, the vibe is completely different. The growth looks much more organic, chaotic, and resembles a sprawling unplanned settlement/slum dynamic. The houses are densely packed together with barely any layout, and there’s a noticeable lack of clear, wide transit corridors or public grid spacing.

It feels like this is setting up a massive headache for the future. We all know that retrofitting infrastructure (putting in wide roads, sewage, water lines, grid power) into already-built chaotic slums is insanely expensive and requires massive, messy expropriation/demolitions down the line. Meanwhile, building infrastructure on pre-planned vacant plots is so much cheaper and more sustainable.

I can’t imagine the degrees of evil they will commit if they return to power.

Fwiw, based on info I've gathered from interviewing elders, his father was a guard that worked for the Emperor and his mother was a servant. Mengistu himself was born in Keffa and based on his as well as his fathers features he was definitely Konso or Wolaita. His mother could have been Shewan, I have no data on her ethnicity.

Perhaps this picture will help y'all understand why the leader and moderators of this sub seem to be either woyanes or oromo pp depending on the weather. Lol

When I asked the creator of this sub @fasil 1235 why his profile picture has the fascist anti-Amhara EPRDF flag in one of my post, he briefly disappeared from the face of the earth just evade answering a simple question. It appears that @fasil 1235 and his lil mod minions are now more confident now, so I would like to give @fasil 1235 a once in a lifetime opportunity to answer the question again.

The question is for him only btw( a message for the lil mod mini0ns )

Also leave this weirdo sub if you are a self respecting Amhara. Lol

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By popular demand, editing to add: it’s Ethiopian food! Most restaurants have some type of vegetable platter like this and it is sooo good.

We had been together for under a month when I unexpectedly had to put my soul dog to sleep one morning. This man works within walking distance of my home and said he’d come over when I returned from the vet, which isn’t all that unusual for him to do on a lunch break.

He brought me food and drinks. When I asked why he wasn’t getting ready to go back to work he told me he’d taken the day off. It honestly hadn’t occurred to me that anyone would do that - just up and leave work to take care of me.

He held me while I cried until I fell asleep and, once I was asleep, cleaned my entire apartment. Then he held me while I cried again… and again. Then he stayed the night and walked himself back to work the next morning in the same clothes.

I saw some generic Instagram post later that day saying “Judge a man by the urgency with which he moves when it comes to you” and it struck me. This is not the only example of this man moving urgently for me.

I started many versions of this post with “I’m trying not to get ahead of myself…”, but I don’t think I’m trying not to anymore. Regardless of anything else, I am better off now than when I met this man because I know for the first time that being treated this well is possible for me.

I couldn’t show the full picture but you can already tell what it is! This is the history of what happened during the 2015-2018 protests that ousted the Tplf/Eprdf extremely 3vi1 corrupt government at the time personally under meles it was never like this until he left then hihwat changed for the worst. I have even more gru3sum evidence during that time If you guys didn’t know let me bring you back memory lane on why Hihwat was extremely hated! This is when lots of Addis Ababa tegaru were acting like the country was fine with no problems when their Oromara brothers were getting these acts committed on them just for protesting! They cut his you already know off! This is only the tip of the iceberg man of what I have saved from this sad time! We need a better future I was going through my files and looked back on this today and other things I have saved from 2015-18 it was very sad and disturbed time with the acts of what agazi squad would do to protesters! All Ethiopians especially tegaru what are your thoughts on this? Because I remember back then lots of tegaru in Addis and outside the country would actually joke about this stuff back in 2016 time which is another reason why there was so much hateful rhetoric at the time and if any of you were here at the time you know what I mean and how bad this time was! To be honest I’m giving meles too much credit how can you forget 2005? He acted like nothing happened the next day. Wish I could cross post this to r/oromia and r/tigray but like many others I am banned by their extremely sensitive moderates.