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Spotlight | Ethiopia
Moscow ups its game in bell tower battle in the Horn

By Antoine Galindo

Published on 14.03.2022 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 4 minutes

The Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril. © Jean-Marc Loos/Photo PQR/L'Alsace/MaxPP

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has shown itself very open to the advances of the Patriarch of Moscow, who is on a crusade against the Church of Alexandria for recognising the Orthodox Church of Ukraine's independence from Russia in 2019.

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Spotlight | Ethiopia
Moscow ups its game in bell tower battle in the Horn

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has shown itself very open to the advances of the Patriarch of Moscow, who is on a crusade against the Church of Alexandria for recognising the Orthodox Church of Ukraine's independence from Russia in 2019.

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Spotlight | Ethiopia Moscow ups its game in bell tower battle in the Horn

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Spotlight | Ethiopia
Moscow ups its game in bell tower battle in the Horn

Kenya
Russian Orthodox Church's African leader due in western Kenya

Kenya
Russia leveraging universities, sport and religion with Kenya's elite

Ethiopia
Russia beefs up its trade diplomacy in Addis Ababa

Burundi
Russian Orthodox Church extends its reach to Bujumbura

Ethiopia, France, Russia
Both Moscow and Paris maintain navy-focused presence in Ethiopia

Ethiopia
Ethiopian Orthodox Patriarch prompts Abiy's adviser, Daniel Kibret's ire

Spotlight | Africa, Russia
Russian ambassadors in Africa in combat mode

Spotlight | Africa
From Nairobi to Lagos, Moscow wages religious war on Kyiv

Ethiopia
Tigrayan Muslims secede taking cue from Orthodox church

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Tigrayan Orthodox Church split has deep political roots

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Patriarch Kirill, the pugnacious emissary of Russian diplomacy in Africa