Article 8 — Pendency

(1) No court shall try any suit in which the matter in issue is aIsd directly and substantially in issue in a previously instituted civil suit between the same parties, or between parties under whom they or any of them claim. litigating under the same title, where such civil suit is pending in the same or any other court in Ethi- opia having jurisdiction to grant the relief claimed. (2) The pendency of a suit in a foreign court shall not preclude the courts in Ethiopia from trying a suit founded on the same cause of action. (3) Where the matter in issue is also in issue in a suit pending in another court or is so closely connected with a suit pending in CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE s another court that it cannot properly be tried separately the provisions of Arts. 11 or 244 and 245, as the case may br. shall apply.