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Ethiopia mourns amid political handover preparations

AFP

Ethiopians mourned on Thursday the passing of both their political and religious leaders, as preparations continued to handover power to a successor to prime minister Meles Zenawi. The funeral of Abune Paulos, Patriarch of the powerful Ethiopian Orthodox Church, who died last week aged 76, was held.