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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

An unidentified armed militia fighter walks down a path as villagers flee with their belongings in the other direction, near the village of Chenna Teklehaymanot, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. Ethiopia's government and residents say the military has recaptured several areas in the embattled Amhara region from local militia fighters, while details of dozens of civilians killed have begun to emerge from the region amid an internet shutdown. The military has reclaimed control of six towns including the regional capital of Bahir Dar and the region's second-largest town, Gondar, according to a government statement on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. It said curfew has been imposed in those areas and flights there are set to resume. (AP Photo, File)

The U.N. says at least 183 people have been killed in Ethiopia over Amhara region unrest since July

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen attends a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on June 8, 2023. Violent unrest is escalating in Ethiopia’s Amhara region as federal security forces clash with a local ethnic militia, leading the deputy prime minister in an unusually outspoken statement to call the situation “increasingly grave.” (Ahmed Yosri/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Violent unrest is rising in Ethiopia’s Amhara region after attempt to disarm fighters, witnesses say

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Farmer Nega Chekole, 30, a Tigrayan refugee from Humera, touches his stitched wound in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 14, 2021. He says he was shot by militias before the war broke out on Nov. 4. The atrocities have been seared into the skin. It's often the only evidence at hand to show the world. Now Tigrayans by the thousands take shelter within sight of the homeland they left behind in northern Ethiopia, some of them told to leave or be killed. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

‘Leave no Tigrayan’: In Ethiopia, an ethnicity is erased

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Abrahaley Minasbo a 22-year-old trained dancer and Tigrayan survivor from Mai-Kadra, Ethiopia, shows wounds on his face and his partially amputated hand, inside a shelter, in Hamdeyat Transition Center near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, eastern Sudan, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Minasbo said Amhara militia members dragged him from his home in Mai-Kadra on Nov. 9 and beat him in the street with a hammer, an axe, sticks and a machete, then left him for dead. Scars now slope across the right side of his face and neck. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

‘I would never go back’: Horrors grow in Ethiopia’s conflict

By Nariman El-Mofty and Haleuya Hadero - Associated Press