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News: Addis Abeba City Admin closes schools amidst growing security concern following govt, Synod standoff
Photo: Archive/AddisStandard Addis Abeba – Schools in Addis Abeba are closed on Friday, 10 February, following text messages were abruptly…
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News: Oromia, Harari and South West regional states endorse Joint Task Force decision to ban rallies, Oromia says out of “patience”
Followers of the EOTC observing the end of of Fast of Nineveh which was between Monday 06 to Wednesday 08…
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News: Govt, Orthodox Synod in heightened war of words; Synod goes ahead with planned rally despite warning by joint task force
His Holiness Abune Abraha, General Manager of the Holy Synod reading the statement earlier this evening. Picture: Mahibere Kidusan Addis…
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News: Joint Security, Intelligence Task Force cautions against unauthorized rallies, threatens to take actions as Orthodox Church Schism takes toll
Addis Abeba – The Ethiopian Joint Security and Intelligence Task Force cautioned both dissenting groups of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo…
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News: Dissenting Archbishop returns to Diocese where Church schism first ruptured as Holy Synod continues rejection
A poster from a local church in Qerssa Malima Woredsa hangs on a minivan with a message “We are behind…
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News: Two killed, one injured in cross border raid by South Sudan’s Murle militants in Gambella region
Utow Ukot. Picture: Gambella region communication Addis Abeba: The Murle tribe militants who crossed into Ethiopia’s Gambella region from South…
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Analysis: Unpaid Tigrayan civil servants linger in despair, await for peace deal dividend to trickle
This week the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) announced the start of full business operations in the capital of Tigray…
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Analysis: “Enough! Let them come to peaceful path”: Oromia president wants to end fighting peacefully, but remains vague on how
Shimelis Abdissa. Photo: Screenshot/AS Addis Abeba – In what appeared to be a sharp departure in tone and messaging, Shimelis…
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News: Court to rule on Orthodox Church’s request to ban breakaway archbishops for three months as it prepares to press charges
The three breakaway Archbishops at the center of the ongoing controversy who have been excommunicated by the EOTC Holy Synod…
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News: Addis Police says 19 officers injured in confrontation with group gathered in Orthodox church in Oromia special zone; urges refrain from “actions to disturb peace”
Photo: Addis Abeba Police Addis Abeba – The Addis Abeba Police said that “19 police leaders and officers sustained serious…
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