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SHINE VS GRIND

May 17 , 2026.

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.


PUBLISHED ON May 17,2026 [ VOL 27 , NO 1359]

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