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>It is reported that no significant repairs have been successful since its partial destruction, likely during World War II. In February 2002, a metal truss bridge, supported by the original superstructure, was installed to restore the functionality of Sebara Dildiy, making it traversable. It was designed and installed by an American nonprofit organization, Bridges to Prosperity, and it reportedly lasted until 2005
They used a rope to cross it for 50 years until white people came and plopped down a piece of metal connecting the two sides, then that piece of metal was stolen a few years later lol.
Then the white guy had to come back and build a suspension bridge
>Arriving at the Blue Nile in Ethiopia after hiking 15 miles from the nearest dirt road into a gorge almost as deep as the Grand Canyon, American Ken Frantz surveyed piles of rebar, stacks of wooden decking, tons of concrete, and spans of steel cable that men and mules had lugged down on footpaths to the banks of the African river. Frantz, 60, planned to turn the piles of building materials into a new suspension footbridge to replace a 360-year-old stone bridge he had already repaired twice