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SHINE VS GRIND


SHINE VS GRIND

In the place where once stood a building owned by the Ethiopian Shipping & Logistics, echoes of nostalgia linger yet, the company's symbolic, elevated, glass-fronted tower topped with a distinctive circular crown reaches toward a blue sky. Yet at its base, hidden behind a bright green metal fence painted with scenes of trees and wildlife, lies the gritty reality of transformation.This captures a capital caught mid-stride, where the polished promise of future expansion stands in immediate contrast to the raw, disruptive process of clearing away the old to make way for the new.

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ROLLING RELICS

What looks like a family's careful move from one home to another has instead turned into a rolling paradox on wheels: a modest pickup truck groaning under a mountain of life bundled in a blue tarp, tightly strapped as if the future itself might slip off mid-journey. Perched on top like a crown no one asked for is a full satellite dish, because nothing says “we're relocating” quite like insisting on uninterrupted signal while your furniture is literally holding on for dear life. Behind it, tr...


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GREEN ALLIANCE

A handshake sealed in measured confidence sets the tone at the Adwa Memorial Museum, where Solomon Tadele, CEO of AM Business and Investment Group, and  Chang Shu, marketing director of Joylong Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd, formalise a partnership that points firmly toward an electric mobility future. Between them, signed documents signal the entry of Minibus EV vehicles and charging infrastructure into a market preparing for transformation. The moment carries the quiet weight of intent: o...


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FIBRE COMMAND

Around Saris, a quiet workshop turns into a kind of “thread highway,” where a young man sits at the centre of what looks less like a loom and more like a carefully tamed explosion of strings. In front of him, hundreds of taut white threads stretch out in perfect formation, behaving with suspicious discipline, like they've been told not to misbehave today. He smiles from behind the frame as if fully aware he's presiding over a slow-motion miracle, one strand at a time. Around him, bundles of...