An explosion rocked the normally peaceful capital last Friday sending tremors of suspicion and theories on who set the bomb and why through the Mercato area. The huge boom that penetrated the usual calls of Africa’s largest outdoor market left an air of silence in a normally bustling area. A crowd of onlookers tries to get close to the epicentre of the disturbance outside the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia’s (CBE) Aba Korun branch after the blast at around 2:00pm on February 29, 2008. Both the federal and city police are investigating the incident that caused a branch of East Africa’s largest bank’s glass to shatter but left no one injured on the sidewalk.