Gabriella fox in Addis Ababa - Protests Spread After Standoff at Ethiopian Activist's Home

Currently, she works as a consultant for local governments, INGOs and grassroots networks of the urban poor in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.

The City Infrastructure Equity Lab CIEL works toward building more equitable infrastructure systems—particularly in the water and sanitation domain.

This evocative story tells of her return to Ethiopia, and the strange homelessness of those who belong in two places and therefore neither place.

In Ambo, 100 km 60 miles from the capital, police fired tear gas and bullets at thousands of protesters, and at least four people were shot, two residents who spoke on condition of anonymity told Reuters.