Answer: Downtown Asmara looks like downtown Mogadishu, or worse.
Here is downtown Asmara after 33 years of "Liberation"




While Asmara is known asIn Ethiopia, a recent survey found 80 percent of the country's urban population live in slums.
In addition, if you had a shred of intelligence, or went out beyond your neighbourhood, you would have known that such kind of dilapidated old buildings are all over the western countries. You can easily find them even in worse conditions in New York, Paris, London, Berlin, Madrid, Lisbon, Bruxelles, Rome, etc.A romantic city and a UNESCO world heritage site.






