"They sure have enough of their own problems and I do understand that this move might have little to do with mere cost of energy and a lot more with foreign currency access."
True that.
They sure do have problems, notably that half the population doesn't have access to running water (but do have the associated communicable diseases that come with that lack of water).
The people are dirt poor (Per capita GNI is something like US$1,000) and the country has one of the lowest car ownership metrics of any country in the entire world (something like a mere 0.2% of Ethiopians own a car).
You'd think that the priority would be providing sanitation for 50% of the population instead of tinkering with something that impacts only 0.2% of the population.
And yet you get the smug elite westerners on the internet cheering and applauding.
