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A view of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

Blasts reported in Ethiopian capital hours after government banned drone flights

By Samuel Getachew - Associated Press

Members of an Orthodox choir perform during celebrations for the Orthodox holiday of Meskel, an annual holiday celebrating the discovery of the True Cross in the fourth century by the Roman Empress Helena, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Amanuel Sileshi)

Ethiopians celebrate Meskel holiday with pomp, despite recent fighting in Tigray

By Samuel Getachew - Associated Press

Members of an Orthodox choir perform during celebrations for the Orthodox holiday of Meskel, an annual holiday celebrating the discovery of the True Cross in the fourth century by the Roman Empress Helena, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Amanuel Sileshi)

Ethiopians celebrate Meskel holiday with pomp, despite recent fighting in Tigray

By Samuel Getachew - Associated Press

People walk in Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region, as fighting escalates with the central government, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. (AP Photo)

Residents of largest city in northern Ethiopia express fear after eruption of fighting

By Amanuel Gebremedhin and Samuel Getachew - Associated Press

Ethiopian voters gather outside a polling station before voting begins in the general election in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Amanuel Sileshi)

Insecurity disrupts some voting in Ethiopia as ruling party seeks majority

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Locals search for the bodies of mudslide victims in the Gacho Baba district of the Gamo Zone in southern Ethiopia on Tuesday, March 10, 2026. (Gacho Baba District Government Communication Affairs Department via AP)

Landslides in southern Ethiopia leave at least 50 people dead and 125 missing

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People attend the annual thanksgiving celebrations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Saturday, Oct 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Amanuel Birhane)

Thousands celebrate Ethiopia’s thanksgiving festival

By Amanuel Gebremedhin Birhane - Associated Press

People attend the annual thanksgiving celebrations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Saturday, Oct 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Amanuel Birhane)

Thousands gather for Ethiopia’s thanksgiving festival

By Amanuel Gebremedhin Birhane - Associated Press

A participant plants local green plants in a park as part of Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative, which aims to plant 7.5 billion trees by the end of the year, at Jifara Ber site, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Amanuel Birhane)

Ethiopia’s national tree campaign underway with aim to plant 700 million seedlings in one day

By Amanuel Gebremedhin Birhane - Associated Press

This grab taken from video shows Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, Ethiopia, Feb. 20, 2022. (AP Photo)

Ethiopia completes massive electric dam on the Nile over Egyptian objections

By Samuel Getachew and Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Nicole Evatt, vendors sell everything from spices to handwoven baskets and live chickens at Merkato, one of Africa's largest open-air markets, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Jan. 4, 2025. (Nicole Evatt via AP)

A 72-hour stopover in Ethiopia offers travelers ancient wonders and city adventures

By Nicole Evatt - Associated Press

Ethiopian pilgrims pray during a Mass service for Ethiopian Christmas at the Bole Medhane Alem cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo)

Ethiopians celebrate Christmas as natural calamities and conflict take their toll

By Samuel Getachew - Associated Press

A batch of electrical vehicles for sale parked at a car yard in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo)

Ethiopia bans imports of gas-powered private vehicles, but the switch to electric is a bumpy ride

By Samuel Getachew - Associated Press

FILE -A man sells chickens in Sholla Market, the day before the Ethiopian New Year, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sept. 10, 2022. (AP Photo), File)

Price instability rocks Ethiopia as it reels from foreign exchange rate reforms

By Samuel Getachew - Associated Press

In this Saturday, June 19, 2021, file photo, police march during a parade to display new police uniforms and instruct them to maintain impartiality and respect the law during the general election, in Meskel Square in downtown Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Witnesses say thousands of Tigrayans are being detained by police and their businesses closed in a new wave of ethnic targeting by Ethiopian authorities over the eight-month conflict in the Tigray region. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

‘Purely ethnic profiling’: New wave of Tigrayans detained

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Farmer Teklemariam Gebremichael, 40, who said he was shot by Eritrean forces in Enticho six months ago and is still recovering, speaks to a doctor, left, at the Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on Thursday, May 6, 2021. For months, both Ethiopia and Eritrea denied the presence of Eritrean soldiers in Tigray but Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed later acknowledged in March that Eritrean troops were “causing damages to our people.” (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Election could prove last chance for Ethiopia’s falling star

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman, left, meets with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry at the foreign ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

US envoy in Egypt for talks on Ethiopia’s dam dispute

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed responds to questions from members of parliament at the prime minister's office in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. The fugitive leader of Ethiopia's defiant Tigray region on Monday called on Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to withdraw troops from the region as he asserted that fighting continues &quot;on every front&quot; two days after Abiy declared victory. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia prime minister, increases attacks on Tigrayans

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

Ethiopian refugees gather in Qadarif region, easter Sudan, Friday, Nov 20, 2020. Thousands of Ethiopians fled the war in Tigray region into Sudan. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

She fled Ethiopia’s fighting. Now she warns of ‘catastrophe’

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

‘Several’ killed in Ethiopia unrest after singer shot dead

By ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press